Thesaurus results for SPURRING

spurring

verb

Definition of spurring next

present participle of spur

as in stabbing

to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object gently spurred the horse with his heels

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Recent Examples of spurring But the broadcasting union declined to kick Israel out, spurring five countries — Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland — to boycott. —

ABC News, 13 May 2026 Fusty and fractious Professor Bullfinch is bludgeoned with a bust of Nathaniel Hawthorne in his office at Cromwell University, throwing the faculty into a tizzy and spurring Elizabeth Cutty, the university’s president, into covering the university’s backside. —

Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 The move appears to have backfired, spurring voters in California and, last week, Virginia to redraw their state’s political maps to more than offset Texas and boost Democrats in November. —

Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 1 May 2026 Other analysts are far more bullish, putting their faith in demand for compute continuing to grow — spurring on those big AI infrastructure projects. —

Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 1 May 2026 Scientists don’t fully understand why, but one intriguing study found that some particles from the bacteria’s cell wall leak into the joints and can persist after treatment, spurring ongoing inflammation and arthritis symptoms. —

Lakshmi Chauhan, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026 Infrastructure damage from the war, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has sent prices up without spurring new drilling. —

Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026 All of those excess dollars are spurring retailers to raise prices and the Federal Reserve to slow down interest-rate cuts. —

Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 The government is mindful of not hurting economic growth or spurring panic among consumers. —

Shoko Oda, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026

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Authorities were hunting for three days for the suspect after a gruesome late-night stabbing murder on Sunday in a laundry room in the Nordheim Court apartments.

— Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
An Alhambra man faces a possible 24-year prison sentence for fatally stabbing a 17-year-old boy waiting for his mother and for trying to kill a man, both in El Sereno, three years ago.

— Ruby Gonzales, Daily News, 14 May 2026