encouragement
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We still don’t know why encouragement seems to help, or whether it really does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
There's a final team huddle with words of encouragement from their coach before they head out to the pitch – a place that for years they had been told they did not belong.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But when viewed in one way of many, “Howl’s Moving Castle” is an encouragement to look inward and see the truth about ourselves honestly and kindly.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Until last week’s combined intervention, both Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japan’s Finance Minister, Satsuki Katayama, had tried to boost the yen merely through verbal encouragement, but that strategy proved unsuccessful.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 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
They grunted and hooted un-self-consciously, razzing one another and shouting encouragements, using nicknames generated by the group.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
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
You wouldn’t budge, though the boys whispered encouragements.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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