as in to inspire
to fill with courage or strength of purpose
presented her with an inspirational book to chirk her up during her prolonged hospitalization
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Palm Tree Crew, which was valued in 2024 at $150 million, activates each of its partner brands into the fabric of its experiences, which cofounders Kygo and Myles Shear, inspired by Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville empire, started about five years ago.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025 -
The end is a three-and-a-half-minute outro inspired by The King and I… the music had this waltzing, temptress thing.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
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These plays still aren’t consistent from Ivey, but look for the Pistons to put him in more pick-and-roll situations to encourage more growth in that department.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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State lawmakers created the program in 2017 to encourage more publicly funded, privately run schools to open in areas where traditional public schools had been failing for years, giving students and families in those neighborhoods a way to bail out of a persistently struggling school.—
Kate Payne,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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“Chirk (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirk%20%28up%29. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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