Example Sentences
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Children across the UK are strongly encouraged to do work experience while at school.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The government encouraged chip-related companies to pursue stock-market listings so they could raise more capital and be subjected to market discipline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Residents are encouraged to contact authorities if one of these door-kicking incidents take place at their property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
OL slowed the growth of the abnormal fibroblasts, encouraged them to undergo apoptosis, and reduced their release of inflammatory cytokines.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
