stoked; stoking
1
: to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel
2
: to feed abundantly
3
: to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of
… limiting the number of cars available … will help stoke demand for the car.—
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: to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) : supply a furnace with fuel
Examples of stoke in a Sentence
The engineer stoked the coals.
The new ad campaign has helped to stoke sales.
Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs.
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—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
That playing experience stoked a passion for the sport.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
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For a wide range of previously secure and well-paying white-collar occupations, including computer programming, market research, and financial management, the theoretical exposure is very high—and perhaps inevitably, the report stoked worries about a white-collar recession.
—Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
That playing experience stoked a passion for the sport.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex and other AI tools can pump out code faster than ever, stoking fears that AI will one day replace software developer jobs entirely.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
For a wide range of previously secure and well-paying white-collar occupations, including computer programming, market research, and financial management, the theoretical exposure is very high—and perhaps inevitably, the report stoked worries about a white-collar recession.
—Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoke. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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stoke
verb
stoked; stoking
1
: to stir up or tend (as a fire)
2
: to supply (as a furnace) with fuel
3
: to feed plentifully
stoker
noun
Medical Definition
stoke
noun
: the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity being that of a fluid which has a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per cubic centimeter
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