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Example sentences for: prodded

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The program, with its combination of rules and incentives, had prodded them to do something they would not have done for themselves.
Months earlier, after cancellation of the covert capture operation, Clarke had prodded the Pentagon to explore possibilities for military action.
Specimens can swim in circles when prodded.
Dechorionated embryos can swim clumsily when prodded.
In late 1998, the House of Representatives prodded federal banking agencies to require more bank surveillance by overwhelmingly passing a bill that would have forced regulators to issue KYC rules for comment within 120 days