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
Intense and Harvard-educated, he also helped vitalize his community, led the campaign that raised $2,300,000 to build the handsome new Tyrone Guthrie repertory theater.
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It was due also to the initiative of Humboldt that the methods of Pestalozzi were introduced into the teachers’ seminaries, through them to vitalize the elementary schools.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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
The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail.
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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
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Attention vitalizes our activity in order to accelerate the development of a definite purpose toward which it can direct its energy.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
The blood, as you know, is driven by the heart, through the arteries, into the capillaries, thus reaching every part of the body, which it vitalizes, nourishes and strengthens.
From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
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
He emphasized these and vitalized anew their application to the Christian religion.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
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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