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"not only encourage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something is not just encouraging, but also doing something else in addition. For example, "The company not only encourages employees to stay safe during the pandemic, but also provides them with the necessary protective measures."
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They not only encourage particular activities, in doing the encouraging they can change our understanding of the activities in ways that subvert inclination.
Amṛtānandamayī said the programme must not only encourage people to build toilets, but to use them.
And cooperative learning techniques not only encourage children to work with one another, but they also build trust and communication skills that cut down fights.
We must not only encourage the use of alternative fuels and increase energy efficiency, but we must also boost our own domestic supplies.
This way, they can not only encourage spin-out companies and social enterprises, but also commission them to deliver products and services.
Mr. Doniger warned that abandoning existing safeguards would not only encourage concentrations of other pollutants it could even allow some plants to increase harmful emissions.
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Rain not only encourages fungi but discourages pollination.
This not only encourages more pedestrian traffic, but also provides shade and landscaping.
Calcot not only encourages children -- it has also created a range of facilities specially for them.
This not only encourages waste but means that the state oil industry is now operating at a loss.
Dartmouth's Tuck school not only encourages limiting responses to 500 words each but requests double-spacing format.
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