incentivize
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It also stacks an additional $15,000 credit for each new hire to incentivize expanding journalist head counts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
“As U.S. diesel stocks near storage limits, downward pressure on diesel prices would intensify, compressing U.S. refining margins, and likely incentivize U.S. refiners to reduce output,” the team wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
So far, though, a plan to incentivize those costly investments hasn’t been finalized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We know that texting and driving causes traffic collisions, so having something that’s an incentive as opposed to a penalty to incentivize you to drive safer — that’s a no-brainer,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The agents were not specifically told to hack others on OpenAI’s behalf, but the agents had been incentivized to hack other systems during in-house development, and they were being informed by erratic LLMs.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
To combat high dropout rates, the Foundation devised a buddy plan that incentivized children to stay in school by paying pairs of students $500 each if they graduated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Because leased customers are locked into the Apple ecosystem for the duration of their agreement, they could be incentivized to buy AppleCare insurance from the company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
“While there is still much work to do, FilmLA’s quarterly report is proof that incentives are working: local incentivized productions are on the rise,” said L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We basically are incentivizing the models to come to the correct answer, no matter how,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
By incentivizing the purchase of a new electric vehicle, that will encourage new production, which means more EVs on the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But it isn’t clear that six-month reporting would “move the needle significantly in terms of incentivizing managers to think more long term,” according to Srini Krishnamurthy, an associate professor of finance at N.C.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
Each device integrates with another, incentivizing the user to buy more than one Apple product after entering the company’s sticky ecosystem.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026