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Michaels egged Norm Macdonald on during Weekend Update, encouraging Macdonald to keep going after O.J.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

As a first-year computer science student in Hanoi, Hoang Le started trading crypto from his university dorm room, egged on by his gamer friends who were making a killing.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

The newspapers were egged on by the American Maj.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

A man in a Chicago Bears T-shirt egged him on and said the man looked like he worked out a lot.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

No time like the present, it was decided, egged on by the fact that people from Noah’s party—Zephyr included—kept knocking on my door, which was locked with a dresser in front of it.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson