as in dutiful
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Recent Examples of duteous
The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years.
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John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017
John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duteous
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Ralph Fiennes does most of the heavy lifting here, playing Cardinal Lawrence, a dutiful and doubting man overseeing the vote for the next pope.Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Ever the dutiful student, Swift follows all the parameters of the assignment, yet moves like rhyming wanted with wanted come off as rookie mistakes. 233.Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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Although some leagues were more amiable to streaming since the last time DFL negotiated media rights, the media and tech landscape has changed dramatically in the last six years.Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2024
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The Half Moon Bay weigh-off had started in 1974, when the California town barely edged out Circleville, Ohio, in an amiable contest for the fictitious title of pumpkin capital of the world.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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This emphasis on niceness can create the impression that simply being agreeable and avoiding conflict is sufficient for cultivating meaningful connections.Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Few could have predicted, and even fewer knew quite what to make of, the overwhelmingly agreeable tone between the two debaters, which the show heightens into a sensual sort of bro-ing out.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even so, our exercises did not suggest that any authoritarian would command a uniformly obedient federal workforce.Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Netanyahu appears convinced that his country’s security, along with his own political survival, depends on prolonging the military offensives and keeping both Gaza and Lebanon ungovernable, and therefore acquiescent.Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
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The young man’s comment was out of line, and my silence felt somehow acquiescent.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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But on this day’s errand, in the New Pioneer produce aisle, Greenwell could be mistaken for someone a little more quotidian: an obliging, slightly flustered midwestern husband.Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Driver and Adelaide Clemens (as Essie) in Hold On to Me Darling Photo: Julieta Cervantes Buzzing around McCrane’s many affairs, both personal and professional, is his pathologically obliging and ever-present assistant, Jimmy.Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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Humans still seem pretty empowered in this future, where robots are advanced enough to do everything — including developing complex emotions — but have remained a docile servant class.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Continued authoritarianism, corruption, incompetence, unprofessionalism, and lack of reform outrage all Ukrainians, even those in his traditionally more docile base in the east and the south.Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
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Tops don’t have to be hard, masc, and tall — and bottoms don’t have to be submissive, small, or fem!María Saldana, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Or would restrictions effectively declare Asians and Hispanics to be undesirables, forcing them to endure a painful, submissive half assimilation into a white mainstream that would never quite accept them?Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
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“Duteous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duteous. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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