Words similar to prodded

Example sentences for: prodded

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Dechorionated embryos can swim clumsily when prodded.
Months earlier, after cancellation of the covert capture operation, Clarke had prodded the Pentagon to explore possibilities for military action.
As part of candidate Clinton's foreign policy brain trust, Holbrooke prodded him to take an interventionist stand, which Clinton did.
Participants are invited--heck, encouraged; prodded even--to submit the title of a much-needed but as yet unwritten autobiography of any national political figure lacking this essential election-year tool.
Several weeks later, CIA officers in Kuala Lumpur prodded colleagues in Bangkok for additional information regarding the three travelers.