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encourage

[en-kur-ij, -kuhr-] / ɛnˈkɜr ɪdʒ, -ˈkʌr- /




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"MMA is my final transition in my combat sports career. I think my success will encourage more athletes to be brave and try mixed martial arts in China," said Cong.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“I encourage people to be OK with a number that’s maybe 70% or 80%,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mr. Dimon should pledge significant personal and corporate sums to help instruct and encourage these ideals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

These changes could interfere with blood flow and create conditions that encourage neurodegeneration.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Could Nanabozho at least say a word or two in his own defense, or encourage Omakayas to go on with her life?

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Turkey is curating an "action agenda" alongside the negotiations that encourages countries to support non-binding pledges on issues from artificial intelligence to waste management.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Bonds may receive a bid later in 2027, when the stock market slide eventually encourages a move into havens, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

In a sport that heavily encourages everyone watching to follow the narrative, it’s hard not to notice a pattern.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

In each workshop, Ingold encourages students to use discarded textile material to make art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The kind she encourages Axel to take when the world swirls inside and outside him.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

The initial rollout of the program encouraged children to be invested broadly in American companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It has left them “unwilling to re-establish fresh shorts,” and in turn encouraged fresh buyers, he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Recruiters have been encouraged to stop posing questions about salary history and, in the EU, new rules will prevent them doing so.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

For years, restaurants have been encouraged to become frictionless, scalable, customizable and infinitely replicable.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

She had always encouraged me to make friends with people my own age, even if they lived in my phone or video game.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

“The charts of bitcoin, and other leading cryptos, continue to look encouraging from a technical point of view,” David Morrison, senior market analyst at Trade Nation, said in recent emailed notes to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Although the trial was not designed to determine whether the treatment improved pancreatic cancer outcomes, researchers observed encouraging signals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Meanwhile, Kartal's British team-mate Harriet Dart produced an encouraging display in a three-set defeat by American 10th seed Iva Jovic.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

AI companies are encouraging people to upload their health information to be scrutinized by their bots, or to grant access to their bank or investment accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Percy wished he could say something encouraging, but he felt unsettled.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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