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Examples of salutary in a Sentence
The accident should be a salutary lesson to be more careful.
the low interest rates should have a salutary effect on business
Recent Examples on the Web
According to the school, the experiment has had a salutary effect both on student classroom productivity and on campus social life.
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Thankfully, there’s no sign of the twisted, defensive, loudmouth race-baiting that marks the legislative misbehavior of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and their ilk in Regina King’s salutary portrayal.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
His emphasis on the logistics of solidarity reminds us that moral advances are neither a salutary by-product of economics or technology, as Zakaria seems to think, nor a matter of progressive inevitability.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
And ignore the obvious truth that the imposition of additional constraints on LNG exports will make Europe and others more dependent upon the Putin regime for energy supplies, not a salutary outcome for U.S. foreign-policy interests.
—Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
But her Celebration Tour stop certainly lived up to that salutary name, celebrating Madonna’s four-decade body of work and its culture-shaking impact.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
Spotify has seen a salutary flywheel effect when popular podcasters feature music or artists on their shows.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
Yet for some of us, the Palestinian revolt has had the salutary effect of making Israel more visible through the mists of wish and dream.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
When the company’s inaugural train made its way to Orlando in late September, Stuart officials organized a trackside welcoming committee complete with banners and a salutary hosing of the passenger cars by a fire truck as the train passed through town.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Thankfully, there’s no sign of the twisted, defensive, loudmouth race-baiting that marks the legislative misbehavior of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and their ilk in Regina King’s salutary portrayal.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
His emphasis on the logistics of solidarity reminds us that moral advances are neither a salutary by-product of economics or technology, as Zakaria seems to think, nor a matter of progressive inevitability.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
And ignore the obvious truth that the imposition of additional constraints on LNG exports will make Europe and others more dependent upon the Putin regime for energy supplies, not a salutary outcome for U.S. foreign-policy interests.
—Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
But her Celebration Tour stop certainly lived up to that salutary name, celebrating Madonna’s four-decade body of work and its culture-shaking impact.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
Spotify has seen a salutary flywheel effect when popular podcasters feature music or artists on their shows.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
Yet for some of us, the Palestinian revolt has had the salutary effect of making Israel more visible through the mists of wish and dream.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
When the company’s inaugural train made its way to Orlando in late September, Stuart officials organized a trackside welcoming committee complete with banners and a salutary hosing of the passenger cars by a fire truck as the train passed through town.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
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“Salutary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salutary. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
salutary
adjective
sal·u·tary
ˈsal-yə-ˌter-ē 
1
: producing a good result
2
: furthering good health
salutariness
noun
Medical Definition
salutary
adjective
sal·u·tary
ˈsal-yə-ˌter-ē
: promoting health : curative
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