inspired
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A group of students hoping to become the first in Europe to launch a rocket into space said they were inspired by Nasa's Artemis II flight around the moon.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Melies, a theatrical showman and magician, attended that screening and was inspired to make films of his own.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
It took around four years to build a four-bedroom mountain modern home, which was inspired by the Vandamm House in the 1959 film “North by Northwest,” and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Eberle said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
While Walter Hunt’s daughter dissuaded her father from obtaining a sewing-machine patent, Elias Howe Jr.’s wife inspired her husband to get one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
He openly condemned the rich for their oppression of the poor and inspired an alliance of white and black bond laborers, as well as slaves, who demanded an end to their servitude.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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