galvanize

It was also likely a means to galvanize himself against how that experience alerted him to the omnipresent nearness of death.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

We have to galvanize our people to understand that the power is within us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed how social media can be a more effective medium to reach and galvanize young voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The violence helped galvanize public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Ann quickly found a focus for her housing work that fall, in two incidents that would galvanize the black community in Durham over the next few years.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

It just sort of galvanizes and I'm seeing all of that now.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

It galvanizes us to stand up for our rights and advocate for a politics of equity, justice, transparency and solidarity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

These dynamics are very different from other evolutionary systems where inter-group conflict galvanizes cooperative responses -- the nested and sequential nature of the evolution of natural resource governance systems causes the difference.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Such evidence of depravity typically galvanizes global action and demands for justice.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

Seeing the paper chain in danger galvanizes them into action.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The Liuzzo family was harassed for their mother’s activism even after her death, but the event galvanized activists all over the country, becoming one impetus for Congress to finally pass the landmark 1965 legislation.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Many were galvanized by the police’s decision over the weekend to forcibly hospitalize a prominent activist who has been on a hunger strike in support of the movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

They were there when the devastating Santa Barbara oil spill blackened beaches, turned the shoreline into a wildlife graveyard, and galvanized grassroots defense of the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

"In the winter time, when the weather's bad, that's kind of when we thrive... We're open 365 days a year," said Matuszewski, who described how the World Cup had galvanized interest in soccer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Drawers of tools, winch handles, bins with anchors—not one but two of them, each with fifty feet of galvanized chain—and nylon rope for the anchors, called “rode,” not rope, and he did not know why.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

The portrait—often known as “Whipped Peter”—became a lightning rod for the Abolitionist cause, galvanizing many Northerners who had yet to see the effects of slavery firsthand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Despite the uproar, experts said the salute by Smith and Carlos was a defining moment for Black people, galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

She said the peaceful demonstrations since the start of the sprawling immigration raids were a strength of the movement galvanizing against the raids.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

“North” was a galvanizing book for its bog poems as well as sequences such as “Singing School” and “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Rather, he “devoured” the book: it struck him like a jolt of electricity, both paralyzing and galvanizing him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee