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Recent Examples of arouse The loudness to which Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) exclaims that he is aroused was wild considering Lily (Cathy Ang) is in the next room. Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Far from arousing curiosity, the movie forecloses it. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025 This arouses the ire of the town’s belligerent sheriff (Colin Hanks, playing against type) and crooked theme park owner (John Ortiz) who decide to get revenge on the apparent family man causing them trouble. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025 With Mars high in your chart, your ambition is aroused. Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arouse
Verb
  • Gnawing paranoia inevitably awakens Pynchon’s characters to the matrix of control enveloping their lives.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Many of us in the workforce don’t have the luxury of when to hit the hay or awaken in the morning.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There won’t be a day when Americans awake to news that vaccines are prohibited, or that the National Institutes of Health has been shuttered.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • After traversing nearby neighborhoods with William in their patrol car, officers found the boy's home and awoke his parents to the news.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Every action provokes a reaction.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Their works laid the foundation for a genre that continues to evolve, provoke, and inspire.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An opportunity to wake a dormant gift.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While the relationship didn't become romantic until later on, Umansky and Zingerman spent nearly every waking moment together in high school.
    Emy LaCroix, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • A little more than five years ago, Vice President Mike Pence gave a rousing speech in Alabama, setting a goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2024 and laying the political groundwork for the Artemis Program and all that has followed.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In interviews, real estate lawyers said that mortgage lenders are typically well aware of their clients’ other loans and sometimes even encourage the primary-residence language for second homes.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Participants are encouraged to bring sleeping bags and food.
    Lauren Costantino September 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For the first part of the trial, Mowery spent 10 days in the hospital while doctors created a grid of more than 100 points on his head to try to find different circuits or certain activation for pain by watching and stimulating his brain.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Drinking coffee may stimulate an increase in acid production in the stomach.
    Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Arouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arouse. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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