embolden

Another win would embolden the government to pursue more companies’ international maneuvers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

In fact, sources have said it will embolden them to drive Everton forward and back towards the top echelons of the Premier League.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Joshua Burt, a regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, called the suggested sentence “woefully inadequate” and said he feared it would embolden violence against the Jewish community.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

An emphatic victory for Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party would cement her grip on power and embolden her to pursue her vision of revitalizing Japan’s economy and raising stagnant incomes with aggressive fiscal spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

We planned to launch a foundation as well, one whose mission would be to encourage and embolden a new generation of leaders.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The pattern is familiar: Elites hesitate to name antisemitism clearly for fear of inflaming tensions, only to discover that ambiguity emboldens extremists rather than restraining them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

Lower-court judges should criticize these decisions because that emboldens people in the academy to write articles saying: “Yes, this is very bad. This should be anti-canonized.”

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

The case appears rather robust, and also emboldens California's similar case.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Yossy Arefi, who adds lemon for brightness—it emboldens the earthiness of the carrots.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025

Still, it emboldens her to do another thing she hasn’t been able to do—to see what she’s been missing.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Farage's allies say he has been both emboldened and re-energised by this race, and it is not difficult to work out why.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

"We are concerned that if this case is decided against us, data centers across the country will be emboldened to go forward," Laura Thoms, enforcement director at Earthjustice, which is co-representing the NAACP, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instead, the conflict has emboldened Iran’s leaders and mobilized their supporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Perhaps emboldened by the support he has received from outside Europe in recent days, Infantino is not going to stand down easily.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Thus emboldened, Leah and I cut down a bunch the size of Ruth May from behind Eeben Axelroot’s outhouse, while he was inside.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

SpaceX’s historic offering in June went surprisingly smoothly despite its giant size, emboldening many companies to push forward with IPOs in the second-half of the year, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

But that’s what filmmaking is all about: surprising us, emboldening the viewer to the hard, emotionally exhausting things they never thought possible.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

Over the past week, investors paid particular attention as four out of the “Magnificent Seven” megacap tech stocks reported earnings, with results that spooked some investors while emboldening others.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2025

The impulse to write what you know can be as emboldening as it can be restricting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024

Appeasement works only to aggravate their drives and strengthen their appetites by emboldening them and by raising the threshold of excitation and "narcissistic supply".

From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin