- present tense form of encourage (3rd person singular).
encourages
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Hetty, who has dreams of becoming a magazine editor, discovers what her employer has been up to and encourages her to keep scribbling and to stop destroying her work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
If you decide to go another, more expensive route, Boudreaux encourages you to understand what benefits she’d be eligible for if you predecease her.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
To understand how fructose encourages cancer spread, the researchers examined what happens inside cancer cells exposed to the sugar.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
What encourages her, and she offers to readers, is poetry and other literature, which “gives us the encouragement to stay grounded.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
I thought about this many times after I became a teacher, and I told myself I’d never be that person who encourages or allows that kind of cruelty, for any reason.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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