encouragement
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Taking his third break opportunity provided encouragement to the 24,000 home fans on Arthur Ashe Stadium, but Zverev quickly reasserted his authority early in the fourth to extinguish American dreams.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It adopts a helpful no-punishment philosophy: If you don’t meet your goals or you step away from the app for an extended amount of time, it only sends encouragement.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
It’s going to be said with encouragement and love, because I truly believe in them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
As a result, she struggled with mental health and an aversion to sexuality from her youth onward, finding solace in artistic creation but little encouragement on that front from those around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
And that was enough encouragement for him—I hardly ever rewarded him with food.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
I wonder how well and efficiently he would have written it with frequent and intermittent shouts being thrown his way, regardless of whether they were insults or encouragements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
A group of men were using their bare hands to try and free her as an anxious crowd stood outside, calling out encouragements to the rescuers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2023
The chat and commenters on Twitter were screaming encouragements, hyped as all hell to have the privilege of watching Malenia fall for the 1,000th time.
From The Verge ● May 11, 2022
He was dizzyingly accessible in his DMs — several people posted screenshots of his private encouragements, emotional labor that was free and unseen, but not without consequence.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
We all ran, screaming encouragements to make it rise higher.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
Vocabulary lists containing encouragement
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