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How to use the word nudge in a Sentence?

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Paid for the video but not paid for the tweets? Well, I mean, nudge nudge wink wink, if the substance is that I’m in fact getting paid to tout the security, even if the contract says I’m only getting paid for the video — too bad, so sad. You cannot get around the law that easily.

Charles Whitehead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

State senators Eric Barlow and Lynn Hutchings sat down with us and listened to our story, we asked them to nudge the Gillette Police and the FBI to see if they have any information they can share with the family. We want to know – is the case cold? Is there something they know? They haven’t told us anything.

Tarisai Githu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My expectation is that Apple will probably have to nudge prices up.

Ben Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He knew since I'm always with him that,' Hey, if he asks your opinion, you know, try to nudge this along. This will help cool everything down,'.

John McEntee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To give is to nudge to nudge is to guide.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.

Jamal Khashoggi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This isn't going to destroy the asteroid, it's just going to give it a small nudge and deflect its path around the larger asteroid.

Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some improvement in supply during prior months helped nudge up sales in September, housing demand remains strong as buyers likely want to secure a home before mortgage rates increase even further next year.

Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I've got an orange and a lime, and you tell me, I'm going to squeeze every ounce of juice out of this lime and then just give the orange a kind of a nudge and hope that less than half the juice comes out -- that's kind of what they're looking at, because there's twice as many Democrats as Republicans in California. Even if you put all the independents, the third parties and so forth together with the Republicans, you would barely edge out the Democratic registration.

California Democratic consultant Robb Korinke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This administration wants to jack up taxes in order to nudge families towardthe kinds of jobs Democrats want to have. In the kinds of industries Democrats want them to exist.With the kinds of cars Democrats want them to drive, using the kinds of child care arrangements Democrats want them to pursue, these plans aren't about creating options and flexibility for Americans.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Im definitely more open with my body and Im an outgoing person. I am from Germany and I am, you know, I dont always tend to wear the most clothes, so you know sometimes they will give me a nudge and be like, Mom, really ?

Top Model

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

By exempting a significant chunk of bank deposits from the negative deposit rate and making its offer of long-term liquidity for banks even more generous, the ECB is mitigating the impact of a negative deposit rate on bank balance sheets, by lowering funding costs further, it can make it easier for governments to finance a modest fiscal expansion and nudge countries with some extra fiscal space to actually use it – think Germany.

Florian Hense

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The number of people in Italy interested in fast broadband services is not that high so a lot depends on pricing. A single network could nudge prices up so the regulator's role is important, the risk of TIM using its dominant position is there.

Michele Polo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This time window often creates this scarcity factor, there's a nudge and pressure on customers to act within that period.

Anindya Ghose

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In an environment where the Fed, particularly, is already at its inflation target and people are closely watching the pace of the monetary tightening, something like this which could possibly nudge inflation a little bit higher is going to be quite interesting for the market, that's why you're seeing the yields go up a little bit on the bonds.

Caroline Simmons

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Often a very small movement or a very gentle push will stop the snoring. The problem is that it is very likely that after a few minutes they will start snoring again and nobody has the patience to continuously overnight just nudge or push their partner very gently to stop their snoring.

Behrouz Hariri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you're a diver with an underwater camera, use it, if you're a snorkeler, rip off your snorkel and use it to poke the shark, i've had a lot of sharks come at me, and it's (been) enough to use a shark billy -- a small metal rod between two and three feet long -- and I've just given them a little nudge on their nose.

Richard Peirce

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every little second will help, i thought I might as well give a little nudge for the line, see if I could take another second or two.

Chris Froome

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The policy implications are clear, governments should start using taxes and subsidies to nudge people towards a healthier diet.

Steve Wiggins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The older rules were nudge-nudge, wink-wink. These rules are very clear.

Augusto Maxwell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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