exhortation
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Drillers, who have for years embraced Wall Street’s demands for capital discipline, kept their spending in check despite Trump’s exhortations and a plethora of deregulatory actions meant to spur drilling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
The internet billows with sobering images of derelict casinos and abandoned food halls, often emblazoned with apocalyptic all-caps exhortations of doom: “5 Reasons Why Las Vegas is DYING!”
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
Despite the exhortations, no model scored above 2% on the test.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024
With exhortations to “buy American,” presidents have almost always favored rides from U.S. automakers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
Our spectral host lifted his hands from the dock, thus giving himself over to the directions and exhortations of the tide; and with that, he was swept away into the darkness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing exhortation
Frankenstein
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The Merchant of Venice
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933), List 1
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