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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a spur to" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate something that encourages or stimulates action or development.
Example: "The new policy served as a spur to innovation within the company."
Alternatives: "a catalyst for" or "an incentive for".
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It's like a spur to write.
Those boasts proved a spur to the Danes.
Disaster, in short, can become a spur to innovation.
Some feel this is a spur to Communism.
Maybe capturing it will be a spur to remembering it.
The neighborhood itself is a spur to creativity, she said.
Others welcome the fiscal pressure as a spur to efficiency.
But political self-interest may prove a spur to change.
Genealogy can also be a spur to education.
Difficult times are often a spur to creativity.
Advocates of intervention have been fond of invoking Rwanda in 1994 as a spur to action.
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