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It was also likely a means to galvanize himself against how that experience alerted him to the omnipresent nearness of death.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed how social media can be a more effective medium to reach and galvanize young voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The violence helped galvanize public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

"We hope that this study will galvanize efforts to have yeast on board in future space explorations."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

“Kudirat’s death will not be in vain, it will only galvanize the democratic movement in a way that even her life did not! I just wrote an article about this issue online in Nigerian Village.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It just sort of galvanizes and I'm seeing all of that now.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

It galvanizes us to stand up for our rights and advocate for a politics of equity, justice, transparency and solidarity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

These dynamics are very different from other evolutionary systems where inter-group conflict galvanizes cooperative responses -- the nested and sequential nature of the evolution of natural resource governance systems causes the difference.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Such evidence of depravity typically galvanizes global action and demands for justice.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

Seeing the paper chain in danger galvanizes them into action.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The Jim Crow Era ushered in a new kind of slavery but eventually galvanized Congress to establish some of its most impactful legislation, in the VRA and the Civil Rights Act.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

They were there when the devastating Santa Barbara oil spill blackened beaches, turned the shoreline into a wildlife graveyard, and galvanized grassroots defense of the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

"In the winter time, when the weather's bad, that's kind of when we thrive... We're open 365 days a year," said Matuszewski, who described how the World Cup had galvanized interest in soccer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The victory galvanized American forces, who instituted a naval blockade that resulted in a debilitating food shortage in Tripoli.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Now the cabin was ready for galvanized roofing sheets.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

Perhaps, someday in the future, the spirit of 2020 will be revived with a new galvanizing philosophy: Most of our fellow citizens might actually be good people.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Grassroots efforts at the municipal level have been far more effective in galvanizing resistance to the creation of new immigration prisons.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

She said the peaceful demonstrations since the start of the sprawling immigration raids were a strength of the movement galvanizing against the raids.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

According to Ms. Weinman, the trial had a galvanizing effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

But they had not reckoned with the horrors of hex—or with the galvanizing personality of Ernest Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik