encouragement
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It’s going to be said with encouragement and love, because I truly believe in them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Gandhi wrote to Hingorani for around two years after the death of his wife, Vidya, offering him guidance, consolation and encouragement.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Considered alongside its stars’ tragically brief lives, “Ice Princess” conveys the critical need to give teenagers both stalwart encouragement and the tools to speak up when they need help.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
I hope that anyone reading the book feels the same encouragement to follow their inner muse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Beasley had pulled up another table and was standing on it, shouting encouragement to the gladiators who drank for him.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
I wonder how well and efficiently he would have written it with frequent and intermittent shouts being thrown his way, regardless of whether they were insults or encouragements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
A group of men were using their bare hands to try and free her as an anxious crowd stood outside, calling out encouragements to the rescuers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2023
The chat and commenters on Twitter were screaming encouragements, hyped as all hell to have the privilege of watching Malenia fall for the 1,000th time.
From The Verge ● May 11, 2022
His ball cap is pulled down low, his encouragements uttered softly with a Southern lilt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
The girl murmured encouragements: “Come on, Winnie. There’s a good pigeon. Show us the way.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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