galvanize

U.S. diplomatic engagement can reassure and galvanize our regional allies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

From fast-paced World War II history to a slow-burn rescue in rural Wyoming, along with an art-world mystery and a punchy look at modern America, you’ll find something to galvanize your bedside book stack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

The violence helped galvanize public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

It galvanizes us to stand up for our rights and advocate for a politics of equity, justice, transparency and solidarity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

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

They were there when the devastating Santa Barbara oil spill blackened beaches, turned the shoreline into a wildlife graveyard, and galvanized grassroots defense of the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

The 1985 earthquake in Mexico City dealt a blow to the ruling PRI party and galvanized civic society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

December V\ It was the sound of the refrigerator rumbling back to life that galvanized Alex.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

Grassroots efforts at the municipal level have been far more effective in galvanizing resistance to the creation of new immigration prisons.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

The portrait—often known as “Whipped Peter”—became a lightning rod for the Abolitionist cause, galvanizing many Northerners who had yet to see the effects of slavery firsthand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

Rather, he “devoured” the book: it struck him like a jolt of electricity, both paralyzing and galvanizing him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee