spur on

Idioms  

1. Goad or urge ahead, as in The thought of winning a Pulitzer Prize spurred the reporter on. This expression transfers using spurs to make a horse go faster to incentives of other kinds. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

“In our view the Fed’s ‘institutional memory’ of summer 1998 — when three rate cuts totaling -75bps may have helped spur on the dot-com bubble — remains a relevant consideration,” said Thierry Wizman, global FX and rates strategist at Macquarie Group, in a Tuesday client note.

From MarketWatch

Musk is scrambling to keep up in the AI race after helping launch OpenAI with Sam Altman in 2015, the company behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT, which helped spur on the current AI craze.

From Los Angeles Times

Kershaw then walked off the mound and was put on the injured list with a bone spur on his left big toe.

From Los Angeles Times

Days after the Dodgers’ World Series parade, Kershaw had two surgical operations: One on his left knee, where he had suffered a torn meniscus; and another on his left foot to address arthritis, a bone spur on his big toe and, most seriously, a ruptured plantar plate.

From Los Angeles Times

“When consumers do spend, that tends to spur on the economy.”

From Los Angeles Times