stoked; stoking
1
: to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel
2
: to feed abundantly
3
: to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of
limiting the number of cars available … will help stoke demand for the car—
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: to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) : supply a furnace with fuel
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Examples of stoke in a Sentence
The engineer stoked the coals.
The new ad campaign has helped to stoke sales.
Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs.
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Speculation about where Sasaki would ultimately land in MLB has simmered since his Nippon Professional Baseball debut in 2021, stoked by his stellar performance in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Temu, too, had been accused of being operationally opaque, placing it in the same sightlines as Shein and stoking calls for de minimis reform in the United States.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
By contrast, tax cuts likely won’t stoke growth until 2026 since the tax reform Trump spearheaded in his first term expires at the end of 2025, Sweet and Zandi said.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, embraces the same old Cold War playbook on the issue: Punish Cuba, stoke chaos and civil unrest, and hope the government collapses.
—Lissa Weinmann, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
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C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Temu, too, had been accused of being operationally opaque, placing it in the same sightlines as Shein and stoking calls for de minimis reform in the United States.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
By contrast, tax cuts likely won’t stoke growth until 2026 since the tax reform Trump spearheaded in his first term expires at the end of 2025, Sweet and Zandi said.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, embraces the same old Cold War playbook on the issue: Punish Cuba, stoke chaos and civil unrest, and hope the government collapses.
—Lissa Weinmann, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoke. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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stoke
verb
stoked; stoking
1
: to stir up or tend (as a fire)
2
: to supply (as a furnace) with fuel
3
: to feed plentifully
stoker
noun
Medical Definition
stoke
noun
: the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity being that of a fluid which has a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per cubic centimeter
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