incentivize
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“Now that would maybe incentivize them to spend a little bit more on post-production and maybe hire an extra person or so. But generally that’s not going to change economic behavior.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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
Washington should incentivize investment in drought resilience, water systems, animal-health defense and regional processing capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The idea of guaranteeing future demand to incentivize innovation was borrowed from vaccine development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Among other provisions, the bill would make it easier to build and finance manufactured homes, reduce builder regulations and use grants to incentivize home development.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 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
Shoot days for TV dramas were down 6.4% to 732 days this past quarter, with just over 38% of those days coming from incentivized projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The concern is that they will be incentivized to strike deals that help the companies they own, or expose themselves to allegations of self-dealing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Unlike Anthropic and OpenAI, which Kharazian said are incentivized to make users spend as much as possible on tokens, Cursor allows users to toggle between smarter but more expensive models and cheaper alternatives.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
Those headlines attracted the kind of crowd more interested in drama than the fights themselves, which in turn incentivized more drama: a spiral that eventually changed the feel of the entire sport.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
However, incentivizing buying used EVs doesn’t result in new production, he noted: “That’s just a change of hands.”
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
Higher aluminum prices outside of China are also incentivizing producers there to export more, which mitigates some of the global supply risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
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