See the Dictionary Definition 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgings
Noun
-
Road closures remain in place Road closures continue across portions of Echols and Clinch counties near the Pineland Road fire, and officials are urging drivers to follow all barricades and instructions from law enforcement.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
4 May 2026 -
The American Frugal Housewife (1829), A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1842), and The American Woman’s Home (1869) offered instructions on everything from bread-baking to furniture to babies, all wrapped up with a submit-to-your-husband bow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 May 2026
Noun
-
The good news is that depending on how your prompts are worded, there is a solid chance that GPT-5 will select one of the GPT-5 submodels that will do a bang-up job of answering your prompt.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
For four of these systems, the observations were sensitive enough to allow the astronomers to measure the masses of the component stars from first principles, independent of any guidance from theoretical models.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
-
For years the owner, now 66, has watched tape, done his own player evaluations and sent observations and suggestions to DeCosta, mostly about players who might be available in later rounds — without exerting any actual decision-making power.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
-
The dot-com crash and the 2008 financial crisis are painful reminders that every boom eventually ends.—
Solo Ceesay,
Rolling Stone,
7 May 2026
-
The staircase to the second floor had a stair lift, and into my head drifted an image of an elderly widow, slowly ascending to her bedroom after eating alone, her kitchen overflowing with porcelain and crystal reminders of dinner parties long ago.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
Noun
-
And the White House gave feedback on draft maps before they were unveiled to the public.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
-
Without a screen and physical buttons, the Fitbit uses haptic feedback for an alarm clock feature and a small light to indicate updates about remaining battery life.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
Noun
-
Morens would help top, senior-level staff develop recommendations, policies and solutions for issues at the National Institutes of Health, as well as offering assistance on epidemiological studies and infectious disease planning in both agencies.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
-
Representatives of the Mid Beach Neighborhood Association and the Fontainebleau plan to meet again May 5 to discuss the association’s recommendations for the project, Ferreira de Melo said.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Urgings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgings. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
