Goad
noun
A pointed stick used to push, or force animals forward.
The farmer used a goad to lead the cattle to the barn
verb
To push or encourage someone to do something.
She goaded him into confessing his feelings
noun
Something that encourages, urges, or drives.
His ambition served as a goad to work hard
noun
A pointed stick used to push, or force animals forward.
The farmer used a goad to lead the cattle to the barn
verb
To push or encourage someone to do something.
She goaded him into confessing his feelings
noun
Something that encourages, urges, or drives.
His ambition served as a goad to work hard
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Motivation
Refers to driving animals not humans; think of literal pushing or directing.
He used a goad to move the stubborn mule.
Pro Tip 2/2Rural Origins
Historical farming tool; imagine old agricultural practices and livestock.
Ancient herders carried a goad for their oxen.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Motivation
Refers to driving animals not humans; think of literal pushing or directing.
He used a goad to move the stubborn mule.
Pro Tip 2/2Rural Origins
Historical farming tool; imagine old agricultural practices and livestock.
Ancient herders carried a goad for their oxen.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Motivation
Refers to driving animals not humans; think of literal pushing or directing.
He used a goad to move the stubborn mule.
Pro Tip 2/2Rural Origins
Historical farming tool; imagine old agricultural practices and livestock.
Ancient herders carried a goad for their oxen.
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Eoin Macken on Playing...
and she uses em the wiles of women to goad him into into doing things he doesn't want to do he wants the ease of being controlled without having to fight for him and told you work miracles do something anything wondrous but grad fall from the heavens this is a darker character than I usually get to play and that's what it's kind of fun because I
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When you're making a...
So there's some tension here between trying to get the most money but trying to goad the other player into giving you more. And the way they bargain is to point on a number line that goes from zero to six dollars. They're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player will get the rest.
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The myth of Ireland's...
So she goaded him and questioned his honor until he had no choice but to fight. The two faced off at the ford, matching each other exactly in strength and skill no matter what weapons they used.
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5 Amazing Animal...
they push their luck as far as the deer goading the snake to strike
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Eoin Macken on Playing...
and she uses em the wiles of women to goad him into into doing things he doesn't want to do he wants the ease of being controlled without having to fight for him and told you work miracles do something anything wondrous but grad fall from the heavens this is a darker character than I usually get to play and that's what it's kind of fun because I
Video examples
When you're making a...
So there's some tension here between trying to get the most money but trying to goad the other player into giving you more. And the way they bargain is to point on a number line that goes from zero to six dollars. They're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player will get the rest.
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The myth of Ireland's...
So she goaded him and questioned his honor until he had no choice but to fight. The two faced off at the ford, matching each other exactly in strength and skill no matter what weapons they used.
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5 Amazing Animal...
they push their luck as far as the deer goading the snake to strike
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Sucheta Dalal
A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action - that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
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Charlie Sykes
American
As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.
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Tobias Wolff
American Writer
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Lucretius
Roman Poet
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Earle Combs
American Athlete
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Andre Schurrle
German Athlete
Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
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Don Imus
American Celebrity
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
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Sucheta Dalal
A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action - that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.
Quote examples
Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
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Charlie Sykes
American
As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.
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Tobias Wolff
American Writer
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Lucretius
Roman Poet
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Earle Combs
American Athlete
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Andre Schurrle
German Athlete
Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
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Don Imus
American Celebrity
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
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