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For example, its investment in live programming helps spur significant subscription sign-ups, even though it represents a small percentage of watch time on the streaming service, the company has said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Fairlie said having early conversations about next year's vaccination programme would spur on manufacturers to ensure there are adequate supplies.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

But the attention on the Cornell case could spur action, he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

That move could spur more donations from wealthy Americans but also introduces the child accounts to the risk of holding individual securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“It has a pointy thing on the back of its heel, a spur or something.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Officials often gauge how much they are restraining the economy against some estimate of an unobservable “neutral” rate, the level that neither spurs nor slows growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Christensen hopes artists engaging with the river spurs conversation for more equitable green investments that benefit communities and the environment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The onset of dementia in Árni spurs his grandson to consider what’s lost when the markers of memory depart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The team of volunteers are "immensely proud" of their efforts, added Julian, and hearing from the charities how the money is used to help people "spurs you on to make more."

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

He put the spurs to his surefooted little garron.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

By this point, Lee recalls being shattered but said the adrenaline spurred him on to raise the alarm.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The sighting of the extremely venomous viper, which has the longest fangs of any snake in the world, spurred the Santa Ana Police Department to issue a public advisory accompanied by exclamation points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Fears that diplomatic progress stalled also spurred natural gas prices higher, with the European benchmark gaining more than 2%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Strong economic growth, spurred in part by the AI build-out, has helped to dampen demand for bonds at a time when competition for investor capital is particularly fierce.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

In 1957, spurred by the efforts of the ANC Women’s League, women all across the country, in rural areas and in cities, reacted with fury to the state’s insistence that they cairry passes.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

And so my own hope is if there’s something good that comes of this, it will be spurring conversations like this one, of not only how we kill, but whether we kill.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

That effort failed to draw sufficient political support, spurring those groups to change course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Barkin warned that temporary shocks spurring inflation could drag on and new cost pressures could develop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Cuts to subsidies and quotas are fueling anger and spurring walkouts by truck and taxi drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It seemed, like some weapon of morality, to be spurring me toward the Quarter, each plastic slap saving, “Take heart. Ignatius. Thou hast a terrible swift sword.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole