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Example sentences for: prodded

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I was prodded into the free-lance-writer business by the Oct. 19, 1987, stock-market crash.
Several weeks later, CIA officers in Kuala Lumpur prodded colleagues in Bangkok for additional information regarding the three travelers.
McLean Credit Union that prodded Congress to take action.
Its answer: He's bullied and prodded the Legislature to cut taxes and spending.
But Einstein wins the triathlon because in addition to acing the science test, he prodded Roosevelt to build the bomb (10 points for defeating totalitarianism), fled Germany and immigrated to the United States (five more points for defeating totalitarianism and five for liberation and justice), and preached pacifism and praised Gandhi (10 more points for liberation and justice).