How to Use dissuasion in a Sentence
dissuasion
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The metrics changes also erect some dissuasion to loading up a schedule with cupcake opponents.
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Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
21 Aug. 2025
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Despite the dissuasion from their principal, about 70 students walked out of Aug Prep just after noon.
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Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The jury found the use of a weapon in the robbery and the prevention or dissuasion of witnesses from testifying as aggravating factors to Wade’s robbery conviction.
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Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2026
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If anyone figured any of this would dissuade the part of Simpson’s fan base that came to know him as an alternative country artist first, and not someone who does topical disco, that dissuasion did not materialize.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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In the instance that fueled the witness-dissuasion conviction, a teen boy reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from an SUV then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot.
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Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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In the instance that fueled the witness-dissuasion conviction, a teen boy, John Doe 2 reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from O’Connor’s SUV — driven by another teen — then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot.
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Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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