encourage
Example Sentences
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According to the researchers, efforts aimed at encouraging behaviors such as regular exercise or healthier eating should focus on helping people establish consistent habits.
From Science Daily
Researchers found that when populations recover quickly, the increase in numbers can encourage recombination, a process that rearranges DNA into new combinations.
From Science Daily
Future studies may reveal whether these gravity changes helped encourage the development of the continent's vast ice sheets.
From Science Daily
The organisers said: "Spectators are encouraged to attend with their own water-pistols and buckets of water to staff the Splash Zone."
From BBC
When Burger King staff travel, he encourages them to wear logo merchandise—he wants strangers to chat them up.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
