as in to increase
to make greater in size, amount, or number
hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company
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Recent Examples of stoke
The bitcoin price, up more than double over the last year, has surged on a combination of Wall Street adoption, Trump enthusiasm and fears stoked by Tesla billionaire and X owner Elon Musk that the U.S. is teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
The result will determine how much disruption occurs in global supply chains and whether tariffs stoke inflation.
—Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
But their arrival has stoked tension inside the plant, where about half of the approximately 2,200 employees have been brought in from Taiwan.
—John Liu, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
The tongue-in-cheek campaign by the company, known for its plush oversized reclining chairs, touches on an increasingly hot-button issue, one stoked by growing passenger sizes and dwindling seat pitches.
—Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
The result will determine how much disruption occurs in global supply chains and whether tariffs stoke inflation.
—Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
But their arrival has stoked tension inside the plant, where about half of the approximately 2,200 employees have been brought in from Taiwan.
—John Liu, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
The tongue-in-cheek campaign by the company, known for its plush oversized reclining chairs, touches on an increasingly hot-button issue, one stoked by growing passenger sizes and dwindling seat pitches.
—Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
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Research suggests high levels can increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and arrhythmias, while also raising blood pressure.Angela Haupt, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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Since the pandemic shuttered the economy in early 2020, mental health issues as well as misuse of drugs have increased, as well as homelessness.CBS News, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2025
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Red Flag Warning Will Remain Until Friday Evening As Blazes Burn More Than 2,000 Structures Google’s Gmail Upgrade—Do Not Lose Your Account The emergence of cloud-native architectures further accelerated this transformation.Srikanta Datta, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Nearly three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the war is accelerating Ukraine’s rapid depopulation, exacerbating a demographic crisis that has been deepening for three decades.Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025
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Since then, his portfolio of restaurants has expanded across the Charlotte metro area.Laura Barrero, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Taylor Swift is taking her billionaire status to new heights — literally and figuratively — by expanding her $17.75 million Rhode Island estate.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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The Supreme Court’s early indications boosted the shares of companies behind rival platforms, but shares of Oracle, which hosts U.S. TikTok data, tanked 5% Friday.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Getty Images India’s inflation declined for a second straight month year on year, coming in just below expectations at 5.22% in December, boosting the case for prospective interest rate cuts.Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
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Elon Musk has long sought to augment his Silicon Valley celebrity with gamer cred, professing both skill and passion for a medium favored by tech geeks.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lidar is also being augmented by more sensors and AI to help robot vacuums better understand your home.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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Already, at least one biotech startup, Matter Bio in New York City, has raised funds with the aim of repairing the human genome.Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Gwendoline’s questions about the outside raise a few important reminders about the Innies.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoke. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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