as in incentive
something that arouses action or activity
the huge rebates that the auto companies were offering were all the encouragement I needed to buy a new car
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Recent Examples of encouragement
With government encouragement, others have formed partnerships with Black landowners to jointly run commercial farms.
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Ish Mafundikwa, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025
Brinkley closed her message with an emotional note of encouragement.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 25 May 2025
With encouragement from the Economic Freedom Fighters, a black nationalist party in South Africa inciting anti-white violence, the perpetrators would torture, rape, and disembowel their victims.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025
What stuck with her most were the messages of encouragement and the resilience of the kittens themselves.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encouragement
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The Biden administration sought to encourage manufacturers to build in the United States, but those efforts are still in their early stages, and many of the government incentives are now on the chopping block.—
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With a tiny sliver of activist voters holding the same power to deny a candidate an office as a majority of the broad general electorate, the incentives for bipartisanship have all but disappeared in most states and districts.—
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The church declined an interview and did not respond to specific questions about the impetus for the change.—
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The immigration issue was Worsley’s impetus to enter politics.—
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The process is also shaped by a long-term signaling process where candidates express interest or withdraw based on personal motivations and interactions with the current leader.—
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Have the Yankees used that fifth inning for motivation or just flushed it?—
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The 2021 Biden stimulus bill provided additional financial incentives to the holdout states.—
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Consider stimulus like background noise, scent from air fresheners and perfumes, family members all calling the puppy at once etc.—
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“Encouragement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encouragement. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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