as in increases
to make greater in size, amount, or number
hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company
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Recent Examples of stokes
Costlier crude stokes inflation worries and lifts Treasury yields, putting pressure on smaller and rate-sensitive companies even as investors wager a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could eventually ease energy strains.
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Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Arteta is the engine-room of that motivation at Arsenal, the one who stokes and tends to the project’s ambition, whose uncompromising standards drive everyone to perform better.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Recently, plans for data center buildouts have accelerated as growing adoption of large language models such as Chat GPT stokes demand for the infrastructure that undergirds them.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 May 2026
But our societal fragmentation stokes consequences far beyond our personal feelings.
—Bing Chen, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
The Western intervention escalates the war and stokes fears of a wider global conflict.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
But right now, given the dark passions that have been unleashed within MAGA and the leader of the movement, who stokes those passions several times each day, the chances of large-scale depolarization are vanishingly small.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
This transit stokes your sense of independence and even rebelliousness, inspiring you to strike out against convention and innovate more than ever.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
In a city heavily influenced by Buddhism and Taoism, living in apartments associated with ghastly deaths often stokes fear of bad fortune.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Arteta is the engine-room of that motivation at Arsenal, the one who stokes and tends to the project’s ambition, whose uncompromising standards drive everyone to perform better.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Recently, plans for data center buildouts have accelerated as growing adoption of large language models such as Chat GPT stokes demand for the infrastructure that undergirds them.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 May 2026
But our societal fragmentation stokes consequences far beyond our personal feelings.
—Bing Chen, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
The Western intervention escalates the war and stokes fears of a wider global conflict.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
But right now, given the dark passions that have been unleashed within MAGA and the leader of the movement, who stokes those passions several times each day, the chances of large-scale depolarization are vanishingly small.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
This transit stokes your sense of independence and even rebelliousness, inspiring you to strike out against convention and innovate more than ever.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
In a city heavily influenced by Buddhism and Taoism, living in apartments associated with ghastly deaths often stokes fear of bad fortune.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stokes
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If your state does impose sales tax on precious metals, the tax is typically collected at the time of purchase and increases your upfront cost.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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In many cases, our presence only increases the likelihood of violence or other negative outcomes.—
Diane Goldstein,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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AlphaFold considerably accelerates that process.—
Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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Microsoft Touchscreen Laptop Deal The Microsoft Surface laptop accelerates productivity by packing a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor with a rapid NPU for native AI acceleration.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2026
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Sea to Summit Frontier Ultralight 5-piece Cook Set This ultralight collapsible cook set packs down small but expands into a legit camp kitchen.—
Francesca Krempa,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Dec. 2025
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That number will likely rise dramatically as Blue Ribbon Elite expands to more campuses.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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While injectable GLP-1s work by suppressing appetite, this new treatment boosts metabolism in the muscles.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
10 Dec. 2025
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Europe’s smallest mainstream automaker Renault is Europe’s smallest mainstream automaker and does not sell vehicles in China or the United States – the world’s two biggest car markets – so the Ford partnership boosts its manufacturing scale to lower costs.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Dec. 2025
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Designed to ensure traceability, reliability and governability, Hivemind operates within clear command frameworks and augments human decision-makers, rather than replacing them, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Nov. 2025
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Fracking involves injecting fluid down a well at high pressures, which cracks the subsurface, and the horizontal drilling augments the area of cracking.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2025
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And the influence that both romantic and platonic relationships have over a person’s lifespan raises concerns about the current declines in social health.—
Jessica DuLong,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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More betting activity in favor of an outcome raises its price and lowers its payout, and vice versa.—
Matt Motta,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
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“Stokes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stokes. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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