incentivize

A widened shot to win the championship should incentivize schools to stop the padding and play tougher opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

It also stacks an additional $15,000 credit for each new hire, to incentivize expanding journalist headcounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

Japan has a reputation as an exporter of investment capital, and higher domestic yields can incentivize private Japanese investors, like pension plans and insurance companies, to seek investments closer to home.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Third, incentivize states to loosen land-use restrictions by providing a $25,000 bounty tied to increasing the number of starter homes built on small lots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Because advisers profit from gains but bear no downside risk, they would be incentivized to chase high returns and push investors into riskier investments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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

The number of shoot days from incentivized productions is slowly growing, but Los Angeles’ on-location filming is still down compared to last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Carriers have tried new incentivizing tactics in recent months to get even more customers on their co-branded credit cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The wearables integrate with other Apple devices, like the iPhone, incentivizing purchases and giving Apple one of the most sticky ecosystems in tech.

From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026

Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s Workers’ Rights Bill in 2025 had the unintended effect of discouraging employers from making permanent hires and instead incentivizing them to take workers on as sub-contractors.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

The author argues that such markets often outperform traditional polling by incentivizing accuracy through real monetary consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026