How to Use readiness in a Sentence

readiness

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  • Identify the need for change and the readiness for change.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The loss raised some red flags about the team’s readiness to contend at the highest level.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
  • So there is a real readiness impact to all of this and that concerns me.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • What impact the Army's end-strength drop will have on readiness remains to be seen.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 19 July 2022
  • Their readiness to tour the new space was evident as the crew met up with the Skid Row Running Club.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2022
  • Eight of the other nine focus on college readiness, and the ninth is the school’s lead counselor.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024
  • This readiness gap reveals both the promise and the challenge ahead.
    — Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The Air Force say this will be a routine test of the readiness and accuracy of the missile.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The second is to hibernate, re-centre and refill the tank in readiness for the year ahead.
    — Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Most babies show signs of readiness between 5 to 6 months.
    — Sara Dumond, M.d., Parents, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For that matter, the Giants face questions of their own about their readiness for the spotlight.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • What triggered this new sort of thinking for army readiness?
    — Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • That will be the subject of a second flight readiness review in the next several days.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 22 May 2024
  • Nor did either address the concerns raised about the mission’s lack of readiness.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • On both counts, the nation’s readiness to monitor this armistice falls short.
    — Kenya Romero, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But the readiness number for ships and submarines aren’t much better than for aircraft.
    — Oliver Wyman, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The maritime incident readiness drill will be held at the Riverpark boat ramp in Chattanooga, the Coast Guard said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Austin said that Russia has sharpened its readiness in the Black Sea and has been stocking up on blood supplies.
    — NBC News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Warman expressed confidence in the bird's readiness to return to the wild.
    — Staff Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The inflated cost for some spare parts means others can’t be bought, and the readiness of the plane to fly missions could be affected.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Still, Washington and its potential partners have the means and, at least for now, the time to improve their readiness.
    — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Riyadh’s condition for such a deal would be Israel’s readiness to keep the prospect of a two-state peace with Palestinians alive.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The show, including in its revival form, has faced criticism around its readiness for the stage.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
  • Wearing a blue polo shirt and with the sunburned arms of a farmer, Ahmad laughs when asked to compare Hezbollah’s readiness now to 2006.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin putting his nuclear forces on a state for higher readiness.
    — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The first is a readiness to conduct diplomacy with Russia.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The district has cut in half its racial achievement gap for postsecondary readiness over the past five years, Pollio said.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The question of when or how Waymo will scale is always met with concerns about cost, safety, and readiness.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Children will learn school readiness skills to prepare them for kindergarten.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the closing days of talks, both Israeli and Hamas officials signaled their readiness to make a deal, though far-right elements of Netanyahu's government again threatened to collapse the ruling coalition in protest of a ceasefire.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025

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