urged on
Example Sentences
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"Let us stay vigilant, active, and organized until the democratic transition is achieved," Machado urged on social media.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
As of the early 1990s, women’s boxing still attracted such meager purses that she is seen resorting to grotesque means of making money, urged on by her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Most arrive by bus or car, urged on by adverts on social media promising help from middlemen on the ground in Brussels, Paris, Calais or Dunkirk.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2022
Autonomous driving is one of an array of emerging technologies from artificial intelligence to renewable energy that China companies are pouring billions of dollars into trying to create, urged on by the ruling Communist Party.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2022
This vindictiveness was urged on by men in high places who resented the President’s spirit of clemency as violently as they resented the tenacity of the South.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
