alleviative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleviative
Adjective
  • Embracing a curative culture appears to require a great deal of effort on the part of leaders.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Procedures and treatments are rewarded while preventative and curative methodologies remain undervalued.
    David Marks, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Individuals with troublesome tax histories should seek advice on potential exposure and consider remedial steps.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Arsenal tend to use that window for remedial business to address issues caused by injuries — if at all.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The fine is certainly a drop in the bucket for the entertainment giant, but the corrective measure is certainly a win for data privacy.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In such a scenario, reminiscent of the ‘70s, if the Fed loosens policy prematurely, inflation could spike, leading to the painful corrective measures seen under Powell’s predecessor Paul Volcker, who hiked rates aggressively and weathered severe, double-dip recessions.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cooler air will be sweeping in behind this front, as another round of refreshing, fall-like air moves from the Midwest into the Northeast for the second half of the weekend.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Simple jokes, clichés served up as a refreshing alcohol-free aperitif to prolong meetings without really getting to work.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lubetzky launched Kind in 2004, aiming to create snacks that were both healthful and socially responsible.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Now’s the time to enjoy them in a healthful and elegant appetizer.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Indeed, Devonté Hynes, on his fifth studio LP as Blood Orange, manages to make life’s contemplative moments seem urgent, celestial, and rehabilitative.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Both brothers went through educational and rehabilitative programs in the last few decades, which commissioners praised.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At a moment as troubled as this one, to escape from this time into time itself is somehow salubrious.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Los Angeles Rams → Chelsea With the respective lures of Los Angeles and salubrious west London, both these clubs have a big market feel.
    Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • While the approach is based on science, the atmosphere is far from medicinal.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In Ryan Coogler’s 2025 blockbuster, Sinners, Wunmi Mosaku plays a woman named Annie, who makes a living by supplying her neighbors in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with homemade medicinal cures.
    Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Alleviative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleviative. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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