Encourage and Use

Encourage

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Use and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Use verb - To put into action or service.

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Encourage and use are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Use".

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

character	encourage character	use character
violence	encourage violence	use violence
kind	encourage kind	use kind
knowledge	encourage knowledge	use knowledge
Other words: type, way, characters, language.

Alim, fortunately, has a distinct hate for mind control and the demons that use/encourage it.

Source: Power Perversion Potential
Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice.

Source: Poe's Law
While this was presumably done as a way to encourage people to be active in trades, it comes across as punishing players for not being able to use the system well by making it harder to use.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Pokémon

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