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El Niño is a climate pattern characterized by warmer waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that spur changes in the atmosphere that can affect weather around the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Bob Hertzberg, former Senate Majority Leader and the architect of the proposal, said he wanted Proposition 37 to spur new construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

The company, which has cut staff and overhauled its leadership team, said it was working to spur more viewing time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Macbeth even admits that he has “no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

It’s only when he finally nears the end of his three-mile journey to the Navy Yard Bridge that his fears about being caught force him to spur the horse and ride hard to freedom.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Officials often gauge how much they are restraining the economy against some estimate of an unobservable “neutral” rate, the level that neither spurs nor slows growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

She had a secret that spurs her husband, Barr, to keep one of his own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"If it doesn't let the academic side suffer, then I think being offered something like that really spurs on people to be better in gaming," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The onset of dementia in Árni spurs his grandson to consider what’s lost when the markers of memory depart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

I found his full kit: uniform, sword, boots and spurs, and a cap.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

He later noted that listening to Chuwi while living in Los Angeles was a small part of what spurred him to make that album — and invite the band for a feature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported the state is “ramping up resources to help communities across the state prepare for potentially devastating storms and flooding spurred by a record ongoing El Niño.”

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

The gains followed a largely healthy day on Wall Street, although analysts said a lot of the gains there were spurred by traders rotating into industrial firms and away from the once-all-powerful tech sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

This spurred colleges to add more graduate programs and raise their prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

To my surprise, our wiry wherryman, spurred on by the promise of more money, slowly closed the gap between Nick's boat and ours.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

She said China risked missing its official target for the year, spurring a recent roll-out of mortgage subsidies for certain home purchases and support for infrastructure investment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

The AI boom is swelling chip makers’ coffers, and physical limits to chip performance are spurring them to innovate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

And so my own hope is if there’s something good that comes of this, it will be spurring conversations like this one, of not only how we kill, but whether we kill.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

The candidates are campaigning on issues including improving public safety, reducing homelessness, providing more affordable housing and spurring economic development.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Akira cried, yanking on Dodger’s reins and spurring him away from the fire.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz