enlivening 1 of 2

present participle of enliven
as in stimulating
to give life, vigor, or spirit to in most instances it's a good idea to enliven a speech with a joke or two

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enlivening

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adjective

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Recent Examples of enlivening
Adjective
Become Familiar With Korean Fusion Cuisine Mikey Reisenberg is another resident enlivening the city’s culinary scene. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlivening
Verb
  • Integrating dogs into the workplace can reduce the stress of worrying about them all day, and also potentially save employees money in monitoring cameras and stimulating activities when left home alone.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Ketamine works by stimulating the brain’s resilience mechanisms, according to Krystal.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cryer is similarly observant toward Sheen’s extended public meltdown, an early inflection point in the social media era in which onlookers got an exhilarating blow-by-blow of one man’s downward spiral.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s something uniquely exhilarating about having a true rival.
    Levi King, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Other exciting territory in The Grand Finale involved Mary’s changing relationship with the other Crawley women.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That’s more exciting to me than last year, when James swept the fiction categories, with even the Pulitzer board overriding their fiction judges to award the big prize to Percival Everett’s novel.
    Maris Kreizman, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For more than a century, the region has been caught in a thrilling but exhausting economic romance.
    Reid Rasner, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • McCarthy led the Vikings on a thrilling comeback, scoring 21 points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Chicago Bears, 27-24, on the road to begin the 2025 NFL season.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That said, there are far less invigorating ways to watch a good movie go off the rails than to put yourself in the hand of Schnabel.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Draining the swamp never sounded so invigorating.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Specifically, a rousing game of Pips.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting film drew a rousing ovation at TIFF, a fitting start to its Oscar season rollout for all the work the filmmakers put into it.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Jamie was a loving son, husband and father.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • My friend Dexter Romweber died, who was a very kind, loving, and chaotic person with a ton going on and who ended up shaping me.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While this is only slightly warmer than what is normal for mid-September for the Gulf Coast, this is 10 to 15 degrees warmer than what is normal for this time of the year for much of the Mississippi Valley -- including for parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Minnesota.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Great Britain’s winning performance from Friday’s four races, held in bright sunshine and warm gusty breeze, earned driver Dylan Fletcher and his team their second victory of the season.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

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