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

Its enactment should vitalize the round of trade-reform bargaining among scores of nations that officially began in Tokyo in September 1973 but that has been marking time until the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus only was it possible for him to quicken and vitalize his powers to their fullest.

From When Dreams Come True by William Merritt Berger

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

I do not doubt but its chief action is in and through the nervous system; but it also pervades and, as I think, vitalizes the whole body.

From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

While rebuking scholastic and dogmatic systems on the one hand, and pseudo-scientific materialism on the other, it vitalizes and makes practical the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

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

And before you know it, the whole neighborhood is vitalized.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2017

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

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

Description for description’s sake, especially in studied verse, is rarely a vitalized form of literature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

“Part of what makes positive secrets vitalizing and energizing, rather than fatiguing and burdensome, is that we feel in control of them,” Slepian said.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2023

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

“We also hope and intend to find a way to bring this vibrant and vitalizing musical back to the Broadway stage,” they said, “once the current crisis is past.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

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

From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021

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