verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inspired guess (= a very good guess that you make suddenly )
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It’s hard to believe he got that right with just an inspired guess.
an inspiring example (= someone who makes other people want to do something great or good )
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Jenny’s story is an inspiring example of courage in the face of adversity.
inspire confidence (= make people have confidence )
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Our education system should inspire public confidence.
inspire terror
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The main aim of suicide bombers is to inspire terror in the population.
inspire/command sb's loyalty (= make someone feel loyal to you )
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He inspires extraordinary loyalty among his staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
awe
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His replacement, Sanath Jayasuriya is a man of impressive dignity, who inspires devotion rather than awe from his players.
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The megaliths command our attention, inspiring us with awe and curiousity.
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One of Baldwin's weaknesses in dealing with his colleagues was that, at least until after 1931, he inspired no awe .
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The fair inspired awe and pride and reverence.
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Far from inspiring individualism, or egoism, the act should inspire awe , humility.
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The scenery inspires awe and apprehension and fear even on a summer day; in stormy conditions, the effect is frightening.
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It has always inspired awe and wonderment.
book
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Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East.
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The chocolate recipes are particularly inspiring , but the book also includes a bundle of recipes featuring all manner of fruit.
confidence
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This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers' negative attitude.
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My boy, the first and foremost work of a doctor is to inspire confidence in his being one.
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A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race.
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Her strength was her ability to elicit and inspire confidences rather than fear in the people she befriended.
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Lukic hardly inspires confidence either in such situations.
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Yet he has a train of attendants on the battlefield which should inspire anyone with confidence .
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What impressed most was how useable this near 30-year-old car feels, and how quickly it inspires confidence .
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In short, he inspires confidence .
film
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Its history has inspired several films .
idea
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This, as we shall see, is not quite true: some mystics were inspired by scholastic ideas .
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Most had escaped but some were freed by owners newly inspired by the idea of liberty.
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Secondly much of the research on class has been inspired by ideas and questions raised by Marx.
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Kirk Fordice, it is a divinely inspired idea to wean families off welfare.
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This, furthermore, is the inspiring idea that inhabits much Far Eastern Buddhist art.
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Mysteriously, the Halloween pumpkin had been an inspired idea of his.
story
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Many enduring ballets have been inspired by stories from world literature.
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I hope McCarthy will discover them, and tell your readers about them and their students.They make a better and inspiring story .
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Jaguar was inspired by stories that General Motors was preparing to bid.
student
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His comments inspired the students , but placed him on the list of suspicious intellectuals.
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It has served to illuminate and inspire many thousands of students , teachers and academics throughout the world.
work
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As a student Keith was particularly inspired by Gurdon's work .
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His political clumsiness and know-it-all manner raise questions about his ability to inspire the country and work with Congress.
■ VERB
help
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Greenpeace's daring and media-grasp have helped inspire a new generation of direct-activists.
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Because having helped to inspire the fear of the devil, he offers redemption.
seem
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McQueen seems to inspire Hoffman to underplay, too.
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Her brightening of mood seems largely inspired by the light bulb she has been standing next to.
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Kernaghan was superb at the back and seemed to inspire those around him.
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The Compagnie du Saint Sacrement and the Rosicrucians seem to have been inspired by political as well as spiritual goals.
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No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
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Familiar faith formulae seem not to inspire .
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His pluralist view of the nature of the State seems inspired by Maitland.
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The poet and the painter have never met before, but their pairing seems inspired .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inspired guess/choice etc
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As it happens, he made an inspired choice.
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But my father's was an inspired guess.
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If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics, he could prove an inspired choice.
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In Whitham's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club.
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It could prove an inspired choice for New Zealand.
politically/religiously etc inspired
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired .
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Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mrs. Pianto was the kind of woman who inspired kindness.
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The country needs a leader who can inspire its citizens.
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The lecture today really inspired me to read more poetry.
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The movie was inspired by real events.
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When I actually visited the university, it inspired me and made me want to go there.