pep talk
noun
: a usually brief, intense, and emotional talk designed to influence or encourage an audience
Examples of pep talk in a Sentence
The coach gave the team a pep talk before the game.
She needs a pep talk.
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Coursing beneath the 24-minute Live Laugh Love is something like Earl’s free-associative pep talk to the world and himself.
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Hunt also became the first Chiefs player to amass over 100 yards rushing in a single game this season after the Chiefs did not shy away from putting the ball in his hands after he and Kelce's pep talk.
—Trevor Squire, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
My pep talks, which had snapped me out of any funk previously, disappeared into the black hole that was my current state of mind.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
In the end, Johnson got to deliver another victorious pep talk inside an electrified locker room.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Hunt also became the first Chiefs player to amass over 100 yards rushing in a single game this season after the Chiefs did not shy away from putting the ball in his hands after he and Kelce's pep talk.
—Trevor Squire, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
My pep talks, which had snapped me out of any funk previously, disappeared into the black hole that was my current state of mind.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
In the end, Johnson got to deliver another victorious pep talk inside an electrified locker room.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pep talk
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“Pep talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pep%20talk. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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