vitalize
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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
We are being licked, and only the realization of that fact can arouse and solidify and vitalize the American people before it is too late.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I strongly incline to the theory that this electro-vital principle does itself, by virtue of its own nature, vitalize the system.
From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Clark, Daniel
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
The new sense of God and his claims intensifies and vitalizes the desires.
From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.
The simple or stubborn confidence that leads to all-conquering effort, this is faith, the vision that vitalizes.
From Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals by Cope, Henry Frederick
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
The chief limitation, the one underlying all others, the one which no clever contrivance can ever supersede, is vitalized teaching.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
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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