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It was surrounded by fans and the Fox crew kept trying to stoke the rivalry, while the Kansas and ASU bands battled it out on Wembley Way and on the pitch before kick-off.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Reading gave him a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that followed him into early adulthood — a penchant he would like to stoke in his fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Plenty of internet pundits, however, have kept their eye on this and continued to deliberately stoke the anger themselves.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

They are expected to provide clarity and tamp down unwarranted panic, not stoke conspiracy theories.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

“I’ll stoke up the woodstove while we wait. It’s chilly.”

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

High debt levels can tamp down the value of bonds because it increases their supply and stokes worry about rising inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

A pattern emerges: The crowd suspects a problem, then Pangram validates the suspicion, stokes the mob, and sells the solution.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

The fight for new capital saps investment from other sectors, while meeting increasingly grandiose ambitions requires more computing power, which in turn demands more energy, which stokes energy price increases, and so on.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

TOKYO—Foreign-exchange markets are back on yen intervention watch, as the worsening conflict in the Middle East stokes anxiety about Japan’s energy-dependent economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

She stokes it with more hunks of turkey and whole candied yams.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

His warning came days after one of his employees stoked fears that there was a greater than 10% chance that AI systems could destroy civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The rally has stoked expectations that inflation will spike again, and comes as Washington prepares to release crucial consumer price data that could sway the Fed's thinking on whether to raise rates next week.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But the Fife town is in the grips of an affordable housing crisis, where property prices are being stoked by the influence of wealthy buyers from outwith Scotland.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Weirdly stoked on the sea salt option,” one Instagram user wrote on In-N-Out’s social media post about the changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

I don’t think Dad is too stoked about my plans either, although he doesn’t say it because he knows I remember him telling me how he used to want to be an entertainer.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

Global fund managers are being haunted by a new worry — the possibility that bond yields could shoot higher in a “disorderly” manner, stoking volatility that potentially spills over into stocks and the broader economy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

That is stoking fears of stubbornly high inflation that pushes the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates as soon as its meeting next week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The case has also drawn wide attention on social media, stoking broader debates around mental health, postpartum psychosis, and the limits of criminal responsibility.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Theater, in other words, that was creating a sense of belonging and not simply stoking an appetite for consuming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Joon, stoking the fire in the cookstove, looked over her shoulder and said, “What? No. Isn’t she in your cabin?”

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder