as in skilled
able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems
a resourceful leader
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Recent Examples of resourceful
And once again, Ukraine and its 37.7 million good-humored, industrious and resourceful people are left out in the cold.
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Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Moving Forward with Confidence Layoffs and economic downturns can be daunting, but Black women have always been resourceful, strategic, and forward-thinking.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Feb. 2025
But the bereft Galatea, both beautiful and resourceful, changed Acis into an immortal spirit of a river so that their love would never die.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Rather, the world was becoming more resourceful with its distractions: futility is easier to banish than death.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Moving Forward with Confidence Layoffs and economic downturns can be daunting, but Black women have always been resourceful, strategic, and forward-thinking.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Feb. 2025
But the bereft Galatea, both beautiful and resourceful, changed Acis into an immortal spirit of a river so that their love would never die.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Rather, the world was becoming more resourceful with its distractions: futility is easier to banish than death.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
Adjective
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However, even the most skilled clinicians can struggle if the technology is difficult to use.—
Jiang Li,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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There will be beverages from New Belgium Brewery; a market featuring the wares of DTL’s skilled staff and teachers; tool demonstrations; and a raffle.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Recognizing team members regularly enhances your emotional intelligence (EI) and creates a more emotionally intelligent workplace.—
Luciana Paulise,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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This more intelligent architecture generates higher-quality and more stable pixels via supplemental DLSS 4 features such as RTX Neural Shaders, Ray Reconstruction, and Super Resolution.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The digital device is exhausted, the runtime stretches a tad too long, and a club scene that begins as an admirable feat (making clever use of the Music Box Theatre) begins to drag, before giving way to a crucial turning point in the story.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Later in the same game, Miami ran four verts with a clever outside receiver cross-field motion.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The result is a heady rush, propulsive, gleefully ingenious, and lush even in its relative spareness.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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On the original, Braxton (on flute), the trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and the bassist Dave Holland align on an ingenious cyclical theme, tacking on one new phrase with each run-through, while the drummer Jerome Cooper adds fluttering texture.—
Hank Shteamer,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Dissatisfaction with Trump since his reelection is running especially strong among highly educated and more-affluent voters, polls say.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2025
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While officials have always made educated guesses about setup impact, this tool crunches numbers in a way that should bring more precision to the task while also speeding up decision making.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Metcalfe law—the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users—encapsulates a brilliant marketing concept, engineered to get early adopters—and more important, their accountants—over the difficulty of calculating the ROI for a new, expensive, unproven technology.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Dramatic video from the launch shows the rocket tumbling just seconds into flight before plummeting to the icy ground below and exploding in a brilliant fireball.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Football Observatory reports that the average transfer fee in the 2022/23 season approximated €4 million—a testament to the economic potential of judicious talent management.—
Priya Oberoi,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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As is often the case with slow-burn horror built on judicious restraint, those climactic events are arguably less effective in their relative explicitness than the preceding unease.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There is a long running scholarly debate dedicated to answering this question, and there is certainly room for improvement in how aid is allocated and executed.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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My scholarly research on the right to appeal explores how this process serves as a crucial safeguard in the country’s legal system.—
Cassandra Burke Robertson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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