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It was also likely a means to galvanize himself against how that experience alerted him to the omnipresent nearness of death.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed how social media can be a more effective medium to reach and galvanize young voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

"We hope that this study will galvanize efforts to have yeast on board in future space explorations."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

“Fear is a powerful motivator, and today we’re seeing how fear can galvanize people into making decisions for their own self-protection,” Brown says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

“Kudirat’s death will not be in vain, it will only galvanize the democratic movement in a way that even her life did not! I just wrote an article about this issue online in Nigerian Village.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It just sort of galvanizes and I'm seeing all of that now.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

He can’t figure out what he’s doing there either, but he galvanizes the show with a version of Prince’s “Purple Rain” retitled “Herman Cain” and ultimately proves that he’s nobody’s puppet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

These dynamics are very different from other evolutionary systems where inter-group conflict galvanizes cooperative responses -- the nested and sequential nature of the evolution of natural resource governance systems causes the difference.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Such evidence of depravity typically galvanizes global action and demands for justice.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

Seeing the paper chain in danger galvanizes them into action.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The Liuzzo family was harassed for their mother’s activism even after her death, but the event galvanized activists all over the country, becoming one impetus for Congress to finally pass the landmark 1965 legislation.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

"In the winter time, when the weather's bad, that's kind of when we thrive... We're open 365 days a year," said Matuszewski, who described how the World Cup had galvanized interest in soccer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The victory galvanized American forces, who instituted a naval blockade that resulted in a debilitating food shortage in Tripoli.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

He says the incident that galvanized him into action happened when his daughter, Sienna, was starting second grade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Although Nixon insisted that this was not an invasion of Cambodia but just a military operation, the announcement galvanized the antiwar movement.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Grassroots efforts at the municipal level have been far more effective in galvanizing resistance to the creation of new immigration prisons.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

The portrait—often known as “Whipped Peter”—became a lightning rod for the Abolitionist cause, galvanizing many Northerners who had yet to see the effects of slavery firsthand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

She said the peaceful demonstrations since the start of the sprawling immigration raids were a strength of the movement galvanizing against the raids.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

“North” was a galvanizing book for its bog poems as well as sequences such as “Singing School” and “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Rather, he “devoured” the book: it struck him like a jolt of electricity, both paralyzing and galvanizing him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee