Example Sentences

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Investors fear climbing energy costs will spur inflation and hurt corporate profits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

He wrote that agentic artificial intelligence will spur even greater demand for CPUs.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

But it will be Novak Djokovic's words, more than anyone else's, that will spur the 18-year-old on as she prepares for her first Grand Slam quarter-final.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition is making huge extra outlays on infrastructure and defence, which it hopes will spur a turnaround after two years of recession.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

I believe that at all our meetings we should have practical demonstrations in budding and grafting, as this will tend to arouse the interest of the uninitiated and will spur the initiated to greater perfection.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association