vitalize

When Goodman tackles a new project, her first priority is to “depave the landscape” so water and air can nourish plant roots and vitalize soil microbes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

Smith added, “She takes class apart, she has a clear eye across the traditions that skewer us or vitalize us.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

These two elements of the American Revolution, the sovereignty of law and the dream of liberty, vitalize each other.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2020

Cornigliano was to vitalize Italy's struggling steel industry, help cut its production costs 40% and raise its output 75%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had Sir Basil succeeded in broadcasting death throughout the world, the freed mind-electrons, as in the beginning, would have started again to vitalize inorganic atoms.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

He weaves together newly discovered nuggets and a polished perspective that vitalizes a twin biography of two people who were closer together and farther apart than most readers might remember.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018

But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have found that the purest air and the purest water contain the largest proportion of oxygen; and it is this that vitalizes both food and, through food, the blood.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell

Assuming a virtue or a vice vitalizes it.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey

The value of redeveloping Union Station is not in creating a “modern, vitalized facility” from scratch, as the renderings suggest.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

The Financial Times’s Jackie Wullschlager countered, “Although neither definitive nor offering new insights, this show is a very good recapitulation of how Picasso as a god of forms vitalized portraiture after photography.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

The rivalry and persistent competition between Jean-Baptiste’s kompa direct style and Sicot’s cadence rampa vitalized the Haitian music scene, inspiring a generation of young musicians to follow their example.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2016

For many supporters, the thrill of electing him has faded, and the idealism that once vitalized them has given way to disillusionment.

From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 14, 2012

And he poured out the "gifts" in order that they might make one organism of the new social order, a new creation animated and vitalized by Jesus' spirit of loving service.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

Witness the vitalizing imaginative energy director Lin-Manuel Miranda brings to “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” an artist-finding-his-footing musical by Jonathan Larson that onstage can come across as rather twee.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

Japan's State Minister in charge of vitalizing local economies Kozo Yamamoto speaks in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2016.

From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021

"I May Destroy You" is the artist ascending to the next level by mixing comedy and pain together in a strange, harrowing, and vitalizing soup.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2020

None of these institutions could have functioned without the vitalizing power of public opinion.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016

The robot awaited only the vitalizing flash of high-voltage electricity, and Powell paused with his hand on the switch.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov