The most persuasive explanation is also the most obvious: Communism.

He gives several persuasive explanations for the tendency to fall into cliche.

She said trans-Pacific contact remains the simplest and most persuasive explanation.

No one has ever come up with a persuasive explanation of why China sent the documents to American spies.

Absent a persuasive explanation, it should allow her to resume teaching journalism as well.

But she argues that a totalitarian state system, a suspicion and intolerance of any activity beyond official control, is a more persuasive explanation.

Still, nobody has yet come up with a wholly persuasive explanation for what has caused the new inequality.

That is as succinct and persuasive an explanation of the social upheaval of the 1960s as I have ever heard.

Both argue that there has never been an entirely persuasive conventional explanation of the Arnold sighting.

Both departments have responded with plausible, generally persuasive, explanations of suspiciously high numbers over the last three weeks.