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Recent Examples of arouse Mercury’s clash with Uranus arouses self-consciousness. USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025 In retrospect, consent was likely a smoke screen for the brasher provocation of depicting unhoused men as nude, occasionally aroused, and self-possessed. Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 And finally… arousing anger Lazio’s club crest famously features an eagle. Phil Hay, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025 While liberals run the country from the Washington bureaucracy out to the grassroots, conservatives run the country by arousing the grassroots to overwhelm the resistance of Washington. Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arouse
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Verb
  • The wattage from that theatrical result not only awakens the IP’s flame, but extends it across the parks, merchandise as well as the generational appeal for the franchise to come.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The sector is beginning to awaken to the need to start designing simpler, more relevant products that speak to people at earlier, and more consistently, across many more different stages of life.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The eagle awoke and shook out its feathers, fluffing the straw surrounding the trio of eggs as the camera zoomed in.
    Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The story of Claudia Mercer from Portland, Oregon, and her 12-year-old son Devin all started when Mercer was awoken at 2:30 a.m. by an alert on her phone.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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  • Even the revelation that settlement talks have been held has provoked news staffers.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The earworm record provokes a sense of longing, one that is uplifting, cathartic and beautiful.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This woke bill is just one more example of the moral decay that emanates from Democrats who turn away from Christianity.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Neither woke progressivism nor MAGA populism are terms that would be familiar to Hamilton, Jefferson, Partridge, Thayer, or Jackson.
    Ryan Shaw / Made by History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Save for an anticipated activist like Jane Fonda, who gave a rousing speech this past weekend at the SAG Awards, a major political bombshell would be somewhat of a surprise on Hollywood’s biggest night.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The 15 best movies on Peacock Benitez clinches his victory with a rousing speech about tolerance in the aftermath of an attack by a suicide bomber outside the Vatican.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But the internet encourages the transformation of antipathy into creative fodder, and enables its dissemination.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Officials encourage Carolinians to stay informed through official emergency sources and call 911 to report any immediate threats.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The jokey, gleefully profane lyrics are stimulating in the moment but then quickly forgotten, like novelty songs in a clever college cabaret.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Such a device could perhaps stimulate different parts of the tongue to, say, determine if the brain was processing sensory signals properly.
    Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Arouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arouse. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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