dutifulness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dutifulness
Noun
  • Kansas City’s City Council voted unanimously in March for city employees to take on direct responsibility of animal control.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2025
  • The president does not have the power to appoint the NPG director; instead, that responsibility is meant to be in the hands of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Companies that act now—with humility, rigor and transparency—won’t just comply.
    Romain Pison, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Expertise demands lifelong humility, rigor and self-correction, much of it invisible to the public eye.
    Venktesh Ramnath, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration has greater political flexibility to make such an offer than did the Obama or Biden administrations, thanks to the Republican Party’s deference to Trump’s foreign policy initiatives.
    Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2025
  • The Vikings will play the Steelers in Ireland on Sept. 28, but not because of deference to the Vikings.
    Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The kind of vigilance that steps into the comment section when needed.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Social engineering attacks rely on trust, and vigilance is key.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Moore's Michaela is mysterious, commanding, and beyond wealthy, described in the trailer and elsewhere as someone with the ability to charm into subservience.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 May 2025
  • David Mareuil / Anadolu via Getty Images Signs on a truck denounce Japan's subservience to the U.S. as people take part to the 96th May Day rally on May 1, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 4 June 2025
  • Those short-term staff make up the highest proportion of FEMA employees, about 40%, and are a pillar of the agency's on-the-ground response efforts.
    Leah Douglas, USA Today, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.
    Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Standing next to a record player in a sports jacket and turtleneck, Kaufman, with a kind of bulging meekness, a glisteningly gleeful timidity, puts the needle on the record.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Febos appreciates the laughable modesty of her goal.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • Chief Justice John Roberts, one of the swing votes in CASA, is not always known for judicial modesty.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
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“Dutifulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dutifulness. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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