as in encourages
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
the public service announcement urges pet owners to spay or neuter their pets
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Recent Examples of urges
The Full Moon in Aries will highlight home and family dynamics, and urges you to release outdated patterns of control or resentment that might be keeping you from feeling fully happy.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
His insubordination is so appalling that Stella urges Pascal to remove him from Firehouse 51.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
This month, the cosmos urges you to step boldly into your power.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Zelenskyy urges international partners to act Zelenskyy again urged the international community to act decisively to cut off Russia's energy revenues that fund its invasion.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Cecil urges us to confront the history of colonization, the ethics of conservation, the limitations of legal systems and the impacts of cancel culture.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
The warning urges locals not to swim in ocean waters.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Lifting the controller and swinging it swiftly down hammers steel at Atsu’s family forge, gently pulling the trigger urges a campfire’s tendrils higher, while tilting it this way and that lowers mushrooms further into that fire for cooking.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
With plenty of vendors outside the food and drink realm, Leland urges locals to swing by and check out all the festival has to offer.
—Madison Beveridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
His insubordination is so appalling that Stella urges Pascal to remove him from Firehouse 51.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
This month, the cosmos urges you to step boldly into your power.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Zelenskyy urges international partners to act Zelenskyy again urged the international community to act decisively to cut off Russia's energy revenues that fund its invasion.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Cecil urges us to confront the history of colonization, the ethics of conservation, the limitations of legal systems and the impacts of cancel culture.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
The warning urges locals not to swim in ocean waters.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Lifting the controller and swinging it swiftly down hammers steel at Atsu’s family forge, gently pulling the trigger urges a campfire’s tendrils higher, while tilting it this way and that lowers mushrooms further into that fire for cooking.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
With plenty of vendors outside the food and drink realm, Leland urges locals to swing by and check out all the festival has to offer.
—Madison Beveridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urges
encourages
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Avoid over feeding plants, which encourages foliage to grow at the expense of blooms.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Urges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urges. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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