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vitalize

[vahyt-l-ahyz] / ˈvaɪt lˌaɪz /




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When Goodman tackles a new project, her first priority is to “depave the landscape” so water and air can nourish plant roots and vitalize soil microbes.

From Seattle Times Jan. 13, 2024

Smith added, “She takes class apart, she has a clear eye across the traditions that skewer us or vitalize us.”

From New York Times Oct. 29, 2021

These two elements of the American Revolution, the sovereignty of law and the dream of liberty, vitalize each other.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2020

He pursues a mystical theme which overrides it: the need for love to vitalize human lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

We need to vitalize our movement by allying it with great non-partisan questions, and many of these are involved in the interests of the wage-earning classes....

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

He weaves together newly discovered nuggets and a polished perspective that vitalizes a twin biography of two people who were closer together and farther apart than most readers might remember.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2018

But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the contrary, it vitalizes and reinforces that life.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Emancipation vitalizes only natural rights, not political rights.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

The value of redeveloping Union Station is not in creating a “modern, vitalized facility” from scratch, as the renderings suggest.

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 2022

The Financial Times’s Jackie Wullschlager countered, “Although neither definitive nor offering new insights, this show is a very good recapitulation of how Picasso as a god of forms vitalized portraiture after photography.”

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2016

The rivalry and persistent competition between Jean-Baptiste’s kompa direct style and Sicot’s cadence rampa vitalized the Haitian music scene, inspiring a generation of young musicians to follow their example.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2016

For many supporters, the thrill of electing him has faded, and the idealism that once vitalized them has given way to disillusionment.

From BusinessWeek Jun. 14, 2012

Then in unison the troop swung around the stone, and I found myself gazing on a mass of vitalized fragments of humanity.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

Witness the vitalizing imaginative energy director Lin-Manuel Miranda brings to “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” an artist-finding-his-footing musical by Jonathan Larson that onstage can come across as rather twee.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2022

Japan's State Minister in charge of vitalizing local economies Kozo Yamamoto speaks in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2016.

From Reuters Oct. 14, 2021

"I May Destroy You" is the artist ascending to the next level by mixing comedy and pain together in a strange, harrowing, and vitalizing soup.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2020

None of these institutions could have functioned without the vitalizing power of public opinion.

From The New Yorker Nov. 13, 2016

The robot awaited only the vitalizing flash of high-voltage electricity, and Powell paused with his hand on the switch.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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