uplifting
Example Sentences
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He incorporated the colorful reference photographs into the final piece after Metro staff encouraged him to make the piece more uplifting.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
"And that means that they can keep uplifting those expenses against future profits in a way that other resource or mining resource sector companies haven't necessarily been able to do."
From BBC • May 6, 2026
The author places the Fowlers’ uplifting take on phrenology in the context of the era’s other reform movements—abolition, suffrage and temperance—which aimed for large-scale social transformation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Dre’s induction was celebrated in uplifting style by Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flavor Flav, who performed a rousing version of “Fight the Power.”
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
"He's not at all interested in uplifting things—freedom and necessity, woman's rights and all that. You know, the sickness of our class—Brother, darling."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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