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Example sentences for: heartened

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2) The trial itself has already tamed Microsoft and heartened its competitors.
The review was not a good one, but I was heartened to hear that the author--an early Web pundit and entrepreneur--was arguing that humans have liked speed since the beginning of time.
Well, I'm frankly heartened by the emerging disapproval of that demographic.
Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
I hope so, although I was not heartened by an article I read this morning in the Los Angeles Times about the fact that despite numerous hate crimes laws on the books, few are being implemented by police, who appear to decline to report obvious hate crimes as such.