as in encouragements
something that arouses action or activity
the handsome reward for the missing dog was an incentive for me to start looking
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Recent Examples of incentives
The latest changes include financial incentives for appropriate downtown commercial-to-residential conversion projects, including a 100% waiver of building and construction taxes and a 50% reduction of park impact fees for the first 500 units, as the office market continues to struggle.
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Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
It was unlocked because complexity was removed, incentives were aligned, and capital was forced to reprice assets independently.
—Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The agency more than doubled its workforce last year, growing from about 10,000 to 22,000 officers and agents, and launched an aggressive recruitment drive that included signing bonuses and student loan repayment incentives.
—Nik Popli, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
The second critical policy dimension centers on ensuring that public money and incentives are used to leverage private capital at speed and scale.
—Bridget Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Spotts said the heat pump rebates offered by the state, Xcel and metro-area communities can be stacked with the incentives offered by Power Ahead.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
Kansas and Missouri have spent the past 18 months trying to secure the team through sweeping stadium-funding incentives packages — which the Chiefs used last month to announce their intentions for a move to Kansas.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
Four of the 127 units are designated as affordable for very low income residents, meaning the building qualifies for exemption from parking requirements through city incentives.
—Tyler Faurot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Investors chose to evaluate strategy, incentives, and governance on their own terms.
—Shane Goodwin, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
It was unlocked because complexity was removed, incentives were aligned, and capital was forced to reprice assets independently.
—Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The agency more than doubled its workforce last year, growing from about 10,000 to 22,000 officers and agents, and launched an aggressive recruitment drive that included signing bonuses and student loan repayment incentives.
—Nik Popli, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
The second critical policy dimension centers on ensuring that public money and incentives are used to leverage private capital at speed and scale.
—Bridget Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Spotts said the heat pump rebates offered by the state, Xcel and metro-area communities can be stacked with the incentives offered by Power Ahead.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
Kansas and Missouri have spent the past 18 months trying to secure the team through sweeping stadium-funding incentives packages — which the Chiefs used last month to announce their intentions for a move to Kansas.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
Four of the 127 units are designated as affordable for very low income residents, meaning the building qualifies for exemption from parking requirements through city incentives.
—Tyler Faurot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Investors chose to evaluate strategy, incentives, and governance on their own terms.
—Shane Goodwin, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incentives
Noun
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In October 2024 ahead of her own stay at MSG, Billie Eilish recorded encouragements to take the subways for environmental benefits.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
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Hints, counsels, warnings, remonstrations, even encouragements are, in the end, of limited value.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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While those within the industry do have motivations to hype up their own tools, there is a growing consensus that the industry has already been fundamentally changed by the rise of AI coding tools.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Van Zeller’s investigations have spanned the opioid crisis, immigration, cybercrime, and the explosive rise of scamming as a global industry, consistently revealing the human motivations behind the world’s shadow economies.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This suggests the presence of an internal, self-evolving latent variable—independent of external stimuli—that shapes the timing structure of motivation and decision-making.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Emotional numbing symptoms, in particular, are known to intensify this pattern of reacting sharply to negative stimuli and then shutting down emotionally.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Incentives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incentives. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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