as in incentives
something that arouses action or activity
the huge rebates that the auto companies were offering were all the encouragement I needed to buy a new car
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Recent Examples of encouragements
Ward and Curlee also started the app Counterbalance, which provides daily encouragements, recipes, community and more.
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Emy Lacroix, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Emy Lacroix, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encouragements
incentives
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Tesla had a first-mover advantage in China in 2013, leveraging the government’s support of EVs with subsidies and incentives and its production base and opening a gigafactory in Shanghai in 2019.—
Rebecca A. Fannin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Company finances via private and public funds, through co-productions, incentives and strategic partners.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Encouragements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encouragements. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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