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arouse

[uh-rouz] / əˈraʊz /


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Some lawyers who have worked on crypto-treasury deals say information leaks can not only arouse insider trading suspicions but also actually be harmful for pricing transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 25, 2025

“Depositing the money all at once would probably arouse less suspicion with the bank than making a continuing series of deposits just under $10,000,” says Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 9, 2025

Hwang uses it to fill time and arouse suspicion, but there is little narrative heft from this plotline until the finale.

From Salon Dec. 27, 2024

Local media reports that a 40-year-old man was arrested on Sunday and an investigation opened into the possible passing of "intelligence to a foreign power in order to arouse hostilities in France".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2024

For one thing, any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

So he creates drama, he attacks, arouses counter-forces, feels fear—will my luck hold?—defeats the enemy, claims triumph and relaxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

It arouses particularly strong emotions in a city which prides itself on its architectural conservation.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2025

Similarly the terms “death tax” versus “estate tax” arouses different emotions … and the list goes on and on.

From Seattle Times Mar. 16, 2023

We had been prepared, in some preshow remarks, for “optional audience participation,” a prospect that usually arouses anxiety.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2023

The author then must furiously try to minimize what she has been saying, which only arouses the reader’s suspicions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Because of the suspicions aroused by the complaints, she said, she lost a job.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Crans-Montana, too, has aroused that same angry feeling of trust betrayed.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

I recall the intense inner excitement aroused in my heart by Alla Nazimova’s enactment of Mrs. Alving in a performance of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” in the 1930s.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

Yet Hansen has since aroused controversy, such as when he argued in 2000 that non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases like methane play a large role in climate change.

From Salon Feb. 6, 2025

Something aroused Washkar’s suspicions as the party neared Qosqo—perhaps his discovery that Atawallpa had stayed in Ecuador with most of the Inka army, perhaps a tipoff from a loyal uncle whom the conspirators had approached.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"The continuation of the trial is tearing us apart from within, arousing fierce divisions, intensifying rifts," the premier said in a video statement, referring to the split between his supporters and opponents.

From Barron's Nov. 30, 2025

Earlier in its voyage, the vessel passed by Denmark at around the time of the drone incursions, which began late on Sept. 22, arousing the suspicion of investigators, a French official said.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 1, 2025

Their only sin, as things stand, is arousing disgust.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2025

Mr Hastings said her peculiar nature meant she could say things without arousing much suspicion.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2024

But how could you talk to Bloom without arousing his suspicion and drawing a surefire story that might appear somewhere sometime?

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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