encourage
Example Sentences
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She was referring to the emergency backpack Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center encourages residents to prepare to "help survive the first hours of disaster".
From BBC
Bulls might be encouraged that long streaks of annual gains aren’t unprecedented.
From Barron's
“Yes, my fiancé is here, and he really encouraged me to keep playing,” Williams said.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet it was precisely this world—hierarchical, steeped in pageantry, encouraging of free inquiry and progress—that produced the Industrial Revolution and the republican structure of government that took root in the U.S.
Williams encouraged Inge to write, and Inge’s first major success, “Come Back, Little Sheba,” established his voice: naturalistic, elegiac, and psychologically incisive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
