as in to increase
to make greater in size, amount, or number
hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company
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Recent Examples of stoke
For MacKay, serving on three public boards after retirement stoked her ambitions to take on a CEO role.
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Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 June 2025
See Trump approval ratings Trump stumbles up the stairs to Air Force One, stoking memory of Biden tripping video Trump visits Fort Bragg.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 June 2025
At the same time a lot of people acquired guns illegally because of fears stoked by a nationwide rise in violent crime.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025
Syrian officials said one person was killed and warned that such incursions stoke regional tensions, while villagers denied having any ties to Hamas.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2025
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Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 June 2025
See Trump approval ratings Trump stumbles up the stairs to Air Force One, stoking memory of Biden tripping video Trump visits Fort Bragg.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 June 2025
At the same time a lot of people acquired guns illegally because of fears stoked by a nationwide rise in violent crime.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025
Syrian officials said one person was killed and warned that such incursions stoke regional tensions, while villagers denied having any ties to Hamas.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoke
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Establishing a medical school here is expected to increase the likelihood of graduates practicing in the area, while addressing a national shortage of physicians.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2025
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Research from the study Embrace the Sun with Dr. Grant Lambert shows brain serotonin production increases along with several other health benefits linked directly to sunlight exposure.—
Charell G. Coleman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Putting oneself in those situations that challenge conversational comfort zones and embracing discomfort, tension and unresolved conflicts accelerates growth significantly.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
26 June 2025
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Throughout the 1960s, New York City’s financial sector boomed, yet simultaneously, poverty rates soared, deindustrialization accelerated, and housing costs skyrocketed.—
Daniel Wortel-London,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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Most significantly, 62% say their responsibilities have expanded significantly beyond their core reporting roles, with 37% reporting layoffs or buyouts at their organizations in the past year.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Hackers over the years have expanded their target list to include cities and municipalities, hospitals, hotels and casinos, as reported by CBS News' 60 Minutes.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
20 June 2025
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Why Children Need More Help Than Ever Learning to Read Recently, the NWEA, an organization that conducts research on education for kindergarten through high school, released helpful tips for parents and other caregivers to help boost kids’ reading skills.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
30 June 2025
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This sort of distributional concern did a lot to undermine the TCJA during Trump’s first term — and probably just as much to boost Democrats in the 2018 midterms.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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This is the first of a new type of rideshare program flying to that orbit that augments SpaceX’s Transporter program that flies to SSO.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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Next, executives will pull draft decks, key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports from internal systems and augment them with AI summarization of complex documents into executive digests.—
Paroon Chadha,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Eight steel lifting straps were used to put the hull upright and to form part of a steel wire lifting system that began raising the vessel out of the water Saturday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 June 2025
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Another raises the question of subsidence, which relates to the caving in or sinking of land.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoke. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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