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incentivize

[in-sen-ti-vahyz] / ɪnˈsɛn tɪˌvaɪz /
VERB
incite to action or greater effort often with a reward
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
deter disincentivize
STRONG


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The move to incentivize the use of public transit could broaden the appeal of Mountain View-based Waymo, which has been offering rides to the public in San Francisco since 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It also stacks an additional $15,000 credit for each new hire, to incentivize expanding journalist headcounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The process is meant to incentivize the build-out of new power capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Japan has a reputation as an exporter of investment capital, and higher domestic yields can incentivize private Japanese investors, like pension plans and insurance companies, to seek investments closer to home.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

The agents were not specifically told to hack others on OpenAI’s behalf, but the agents had been incentivized to hack other systems during in-house development, and they were being informed by erratic LLMs.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

In college sports, the rich are incentivized to get richer and act selfishly, and the money keeps going up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The number of shoot days from incentivized productions is slowly growing, but Los Angeles’ on-location filming is still down compared to last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Because leased customers are locked into the Apple ecosystem for the duration of their agreement, they could be incentivized to buy AppleCare insurance from the company.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Under the ETS, greenhouse gas-emitting companies like power plants must pay for a permit, or allowance, for each metric ton they emit, essentially incentivizing them to invest in cleaner tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

She supports expanding clean transit options, incentivizing employers to adopt flexible work policies to reduce commute emissions, deploying smart traffic technology and giving small businesses tiered time lines and tax credits to transition.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

But it isn’t clear that six-month reporting would “move the needle significantly in terms of incentivizing managers to think more long term,” according to Srini Krishnamurthy, an associate professor of finance at N.C.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

Each device integrates with another, incentivizing the user to buy more than one Apple product after entering the company’s sticky ecosystem.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026



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