encouragement

Considered alongside its stars’ tragically brief lives, “Ice Princess” conveys the critical need to give teenagers both stalwart encouragement and the tools to speak up when they need help.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

I hope that anyone reading the book feels the same encouragement to follow their inner muse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

We still don’t know why encouragement seems to help, or whether it really does.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Last month, Green said his wife's encouragement was crucial in persuading him to accept the challenge after getting a call from JCB chairman Lord Anthony Bamford.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Where’s your secret? Play fair, Teddy, or I’ll never believe you again,” she said, trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up at a word of encouragement.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

I wonder how well and efficiently he would have written it with frequent and intermittent shouts being thrown his way, regardless of whether they were insults or encouragements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

To get out of the slump and push the quality upward again, I clap my hands and shout encouragements like a ranting soccer coach: “Come on now!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

The chat and commenters on Twitter were screaming encouragements, hyped as all hell to have the privilege of watching Malenia fall for the 1,000th time.

From The Verge ● May 11, 2022

If you’ve spent any time on social media or visited an athletic event lately, you’ve surely been bombarded with encouragements to drink more water.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

If I had not promoted Mr. Weston’s visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen