Definition of encouraging
: giving hope or promise encouraging news
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Examples of encouraging in a Sentence
We've just heard some encouraging news.
encouraging signs that the economy is improving
Recent Examples of encouraging from the Web
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Norcross’ job was not always encouraging or inspirational, though.
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Even an encouraging performance from a A-baller who might be years away from making the Show.
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Even the sainted Franklin Roosevelt vacillated between expansionary fiscal policy and austerity, and between attacking corporate power and encouraging monopoly.
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Obamacare hasn’t been shown to have saved any lives (mortality trends since its implementation are not especially encouraging), and there is little reason to expect a partial repeal of it to endanger any.
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Encouraging friends to sleep with your exes requires all involved to ignore a whole pile of romantic norms that have long given structure to the social lives of young Americans, which can be unsteady ground for even the most sure-footed among us.
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In a recent interview with TV Source Magazine, Rob Raco, who plays Joaquin, gave us another encouraging sign.
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But there's a lot of encouraging things in the way these guys have fought.
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Added to this are the encouraging signals from Trump’s Middle Eastern forays.
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First Known Use of encouraging
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ENCOURAGING Defined for English Language Learners
encouraging
playDefinition of encouraging for English Language Learners
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: causing a hopeful feeling
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