Definition of "inspiring" []

• Tending to arouse or exalt: an inspiring eulogy. (adjective)

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• "I don't know about you, but that is what I call inspiring!"
• "The company got its start in Conway, N.H., in 2003, when New Hampshire native Casey Fenton and three others co-founded couchsurfing.org to promote intercultural understanding and what they call "inspiring experiences.""
• "While I was researching a story on the mysterious death of the world's greatest Sherlock Holmes expert, I came upon a reference to Fawcett's role in inspiring Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World."