Major and Urging

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Major adjective - Sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention.

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Urging and major are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urging" instead an adjective "Major".

Nearby Words: majority, majored, majoring

Urging noun - The act of earnestly supporting or encouraging.

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Major and urging are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Major" instead an adjective "Urging".

Nearby Words: urge, urged

As Major Powers attempts to kill an orc civilian, Rand rejects Torn's urging that they help by suggesting that they instead wait and see what wacky thing occurs to stop him.

Source: Webcomic / Well That Was Unexpected
Holocaust has this for a major plot thread with Erik Dorff, initially a man of conscience who joins the SS at the urging of his opportunistic wife, is ordered to oversee a Nazi death camp and eventually slides into becoming a monster that only Heinrich Himmler could admire.

Source: Start of Darkness
The cold opening for WWE's 2010 pay-per-view Over The Limit at first appears to be a grainy old educational film urging schoolchildren to follow the rules....which then yields to major Mood Whiplash as it becomes apparent that the WWE Superstars are not going to be doing that.

Source: Fake-Out Opening

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