prove amenable
Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words
To be shown to be willing to agree or be influenced over time or through action.
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- After several meetings, the stubborn committee finally proved amenable to a compromise.
- We are confident that the local community will prove amenable to the new park development.
- The new CEO hopes the board will prove amenable to his restructuring plan.
- Unfortunately, the landlord did not prove amenable to negotiating a lower rent.
- If the data supports our theory, the scientific community might prove amenable to reconsidering it.
- The client has proved highly amenable to our creative suggestions, which is great for the project.
- It took some convincing, but my parents eventually proved amenable to letting me travel alone.
- The patient's condition proved amenable to the new treatment after just a few weeks.
- Do you think the opposition party will prove amenable to a bipartisan bill on this issue?
- Although initially resistant, the team proved amenable to adopting the new software.