Lead and Urging

Lead

Lead noun - A piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert.
Usage example: my sister got a lead on the job opening from her neighbor, who is the human resources director for the company

Urging and lead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urging" instead a noun "Lead".

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

Urging

Urging noun - The act of earnestly supporting or encouraging.
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Synonyms for Urging

Lead and urging are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lead" instead a noun "Urging".

Nearby Words: urge, urged

Both words in one sentence

  • Reel Big Fish does this in concert with Where Have You Been, with lead singer/guitarist Aaron Barrett urging a different member of the band each time to sing the final line.
  • Overly Polite Pals This can also often lead to long lines of increasingly impatient and irritable people forming behind both characters who start urging them to get on with it.
  • Comic Strip / Pearls Before Swine Then at the NOMB, Rat witnesses a Muslim terrorist puppet named Jihad Jerry pump King Friday XIII full of lead, and then tell Queen Sara Saturday to wear a burka, despite Rat urging Jerry to be as democratic as possible.
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Urging and Lead. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lead/urging
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