Example Sentences

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Only six weeks ago, Chairman Jerome Powell had discouraged hopes that such a cut would arrive before the holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

A former leadership aide who remained close to Mr. Scalise insisted that he had discouraged members from floating his name as an alternative to Mr. McCarthy during the speakership vote in January.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Back home, he said, his father had discouraged schooling, putting his son to work on the family plot of cassava, oranges and mangoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2021

Developer Fawley Waterside had discouraged sightseers from gathering to watch the explosion however a planned live online video stream failed to show the demolition.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2021

Anthony’s Quaker upbringing also had discouraged interest in partisan politics and women’s suffrage, so she focused on working with the temperance movement.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling