Hearing a piece of music evoked memories from a person's past, and spurred conversation with others about past experiences.
These trends have spurred new studies, within an established tradition in criminology, of examining neighborhood effects on juvenile delinquency.
The change spurred fresh debates over crooning and morale.
Spurred by a severe shortage of cadaveric organs, there has been a marked growth in living organ donation over the past several years.
This spurred him to find out what others recalled about their grandparents.
In the meantime, enormous technological advances spurred a revolution in the sciences concerned with genes, brain, and development.
Entry rates for 1941-42 were extremely high as the demand for war production spurred industrial expansion.
The creation of revolutionary broadsheets was spurred by lower telegraph, post, and press rates, and proscription often led to wider circulation.
