galvanize

But I’d argue that Fennell intends to galvanize thought and action, not outrage.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

It was also likely a means to galvanize himself against how that experience alerted him to the omnipresent nearness of death.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Even starting a niche, alternative product can help galvanize broader change, said Jiye Son, the founder and chief executive of Anew, noting that a lot of chemical companies also have cosmetic departments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

"We hope that this study will galvanize efforts to have yeast on board in future space explorations."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

Ann quickly found a focus for her housing work that fall, in two incidents that would galvanize the black community in Durham over the next few years.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

It just sort of galvanizes and I'm seeing all of that now.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

“Louisiana’s Jena Six beating case galvanizes S.F.’s ‘black MoveOn,’ ” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 22, 2007.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

Set in the tumultuous period post-9/11, “American Idiot” galvanizes the youthful spirit of rebellion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

These dynamics are very different from other evolutionary systems where inter-group conflict galvanizes cooperative responses -- the nested and sequential nature of the evolution of natural resource governance systems causes the difference.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Seeing the paper chain in danger galvanizes them into action.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

But Medina recalled how Huerta’s spirit and determination galvanized him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

“For the time being, employees that are employed to produce galvanized steel need to be laid off until we have a market for galvanized steel again,” Goncalves said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Jim Crow Era ushered in a new kind of slavery but eventually galvanized Congress to establish some of its most impactful legislation, in the VRA and the Civil Rights Act.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Platner galvanized an enthusiastic base of supporters and weathered months of controversies surrounding his personal life by selling a story of redemption and what he called “healthy” masculinity.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

I heated the big kettle of water and poured it into the galvanized tub and sat in it like a scalded potato, alone in this world, just crying.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Both Rooney and Kate are keenly aware of how petrifying it can be to be perceived, and how galvanizing it can be as well, and they bring both senses to their shared performance.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Perhaps, someday in the future, the spirit of 2020 will be revived with a new galvanizing philosophy: Most of our fellow citizens might actually be good people.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

She said the peaceful demonstrations since the start of the sprawling immigration raids were a strength of the movement galvanizing against the raids.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

According to Ms. Weinman, the trial had a galvanizing effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

But they had not reckoned with the horrors of hex—or with the galvanizing personality of Ernest Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik