discourage
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Appeared in the March 25, 2026, print edition as 'AI Titans Work Hard to Discourage Working'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Spencer the hawk’s job: Discourage other birds that might dirty the gleaming, glass building.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2021
Discourage bad actors by seeking out and rewarding the good ones with your business.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019
How to Discourage Pigeons Sir: A few months ago, a superintendent of one of our buildings here placed a liberal supply of sulphur on ledges frequented by pigeons�so far it has kept them away.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discourage, dis-kur′āj, v.t. to take away the courage of: to dishearten: to seek to check by showing disfavour to.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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