inspiration
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Artemis II is an inspiration, 40 years after we were traumatized by the Challenger disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Jerry West’s legend was so well established when he retired from the Los Angeles Lakers in 1974 that he’d already been the inspiration for the NBA’s logo.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
It added it would have a long bonnet to give it a "torpedo-shaped form", drawing inspiration from the company's experimental cars of the 1920s, known as EX models, and the Art Deco era.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, taking inspiration and personnel from Barack Obama’s two election wins, was a data-heavy enterprise that relied on analytics — and, famously, an algorithm named Ada.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Collectors treasure drawings because they seem to reveal the artist’s inspiration with unmatched freshness.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Vocabulary lists containing inspiration
An Inspirational Back-to-School Word List
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The Ingenious Lexicon of Invention
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