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urge
noun[ C ]
us/ɜrdʒ/

urgenoun[C] (DESIRE)

a strong desire or need:
a human/natural urge
Sometimes I get an urge to go swimming at lunchtime.

Examples of urge

urge
In consequence thereof being reduced to the most abject state of poverty (thro, want of employment) has urged me to make this application.
Publishers urge authors to produce new editions because it helps with the promotion of the title.
While it urged the maximization of palm oil exports, the colonial government gave little encouragement to the production of by-products of palm oil for export.
In this respect, civic patriotism takes the existing imbrication of politics and culture seriously and urges a considerable 'thinning out' of national cultures.
I urge the reader to read carefully the pages just referred to see if this isn't so.
In the 20th century, curiosity and the outward urge took astrobiology and popular culture to infinity, and beyond.
It can forge connections between things hitherto seen as separate or urge new categorizations of familiar material.
Human effort reflects this urge toward perfection, the striving for immortality.
In the narrower discipline of the history of science and technology, too, there was a strong urge for serious but not exactly clearly defined changes.
She urges a unified approach to studying cross-linguistic variability in sign languages, within a generative grammar framework.
It was not so much, as he ceaselessly urged, that some people were living longer lives as that most people were living normal lives.
I urge all those who teach in these areas to ensure that their reading lists give the book prominence.
While he did not propose the elimination of local police, he urged that they be restricted to traffic, patrol, and property protection.
She urged people to resist falling into dichotomous thinking about the nature of independence.
While rural-urban comparisons will be important in future research, caution is urged in generalising from the findings summarised here.
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