encouragement
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It read: “A Sober Person, well recommended, who hath been us’d to the Employment of an Oysterman on York River, may meet with good Encouragement, on applying to Benjamin Bryan.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
Encouragement for Postecoglou will also come from a lively first-half display by Son Heung-min against Villa.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
Encouragement also came from long-time customers like former fisherman Yasutaka Shishido, who had no qualms about buying local fish and vegetables.
From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2023
In this case, the express language of the Encouragement Provision is overbroad for at least three reasons.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2023
Finally, his dad came down and dragged Gus back upstairs, and in the entryway, beneath an Encouragement telling me that Friends Are Forever, I knelt to kiss him good night.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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