suggestible

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Recent Examples of suggestible That humans were so suggestible seemed like something science would need to account for. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 In the easily suggestible Western imagination, the mosque has often been cast as a site of sinister machinations. M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023 The crowd proved particularly suggestible during this number. Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023 Clipping electrodes onto your earlobes can leave you suggestible. Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for suggestible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suggestible
Adjective
  • The results were hilarious, but Gould also won hearts as the affable (if a bit gullible) victim of the ruse.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Chamberlain was gullible and naïve, and Chamberlain’s appeasement to Hitler is considered one of the biggest betrayals in modern history.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • They are expected to receive $86 million more in the coming years — potentially leaving more than half of the state's uncapped wells more vulnerable to incidents like the current spill in Garden Island Bay.
    Dan Ruetenik, CBS News, 5 May 2025
  • Relying too much on one leaves you vulnerable and at their mercy.
    Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • Tovar, for example, researches specific genes that make people more susceptible to diabetes, which affects about 38 million Americans, including some who don't respond well to existing treatments.
    Brett Kelman, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But the ride for Palantir has been far from smooth, and shares have been susceptible to volatile swings.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have given fraudsters a host of new tools to trick unwary individuals into dishonest schemes.
    Ranjita Iyer, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But that thinking is naive and sorely mistaken, says social scientist Michael Flood, who's at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
    Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The Canadian election result cautions against the Fortress North America concept, at once so domineering and so naive.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Suggestible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suggestible. Accessed 10 May. 2025.

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