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Adjective
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The cushioned foam insole feels supportive right out of the box, with just the right amount of arch support.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025 -
Kids ‘n Kinship provides friendships and positive role models to children and youth ages 5-16 who are in need of an additional supportive relationship with an adult.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The 21-year-old wildlife conservationist and son of famed zookeeper and television personality Steve Irwin further elaborated just why Russell's constructive criticism means so much.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Microsoft Bank of America remains most constructive on Microsoft, noting that the company doesn't rely on speculative long-term promises to justify its AI investments.—
Alex Harring,Yun Li,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Swain and the Houlihan Lokey team view the area, still in its infancy, as a huge field for lucrative fundraising and investment-banking business.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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SpaceX was awarded a lucrative contract to develop the upper stage of its Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface as part of NASA's Artemis campaign.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But Under Strain The Total and Permanent Disability discharge program, which offers debt relief to student loan borrowers who are unable to engage in substantial, gainful employment due to a medical impairment, is still available.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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At her age, being prickly was neither enchanting nor gainful.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
15 June 2025
Adjective
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Egypt and Sudan have competing maps of the border, but because of the crisscrossing of those boundaries, Bir Tawil would belong to whichever nation relinquished its claim on a larger, more desirable area.—
Richard Collett,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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The clothes were superb, peerlessly realized and immediately desirable; sometimes young and zesty, but most often the pinnacle of adult sophistication.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This is in large part because 401(k)-type plans became more common and, according to the paper, displaced more liquid and less remunerative forms of saving such as checking accounts.—
Allison Schrager,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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This mundane enterprise turned out to be reasonably remunerative.—
Seth Harp,
Rolling Stone,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes puddings can be surprisingly healthful and satisfying.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t healthful in-person power play, which demands from its participants certain sensitivities, or at least the social acumen to leave one’s home and look another person in the eye.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Although, while the vast majority of schools had levels of lead higher than the state's advisable limit in one or more drinking water sources, just over 80 percent of drinking fixtures analyzed in the review tested below the 5-ppb level.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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However, offensive action is not always advisable.—
Tim Reynolds,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Amelioratory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amelioratory. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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