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Recent Examples of constitutive What the poem’s constitutive range of modal verbs exemplify is a mode of poetic questioning. Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 Our back-and-forths with a chatbot, in turn, exteriorize our private, internal dialogues, which some consider constitutive of thought itself. Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025 There are the constitutive ingredients: her tightknit and loving parents — Marlean, an elementary school teacher, and Paul, a pastor— and their faith and the protective love of Wes. Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 11 June 2025 Obviously, this dialectic has been constitutive of Gabriel Orozco’s work from the very beginning and determines it to this very day. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025 Art critic Eva Diaz, writing for ArtReview, says that Of the ‘creative’ pursuits, architecture is among the most dependent on big piles of capital in order to get its work off the ground: patronage is a constitutive yoke of the profession. Matt Shaw, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 After his beginnings at Modern Collections, Philbrick delved into corrupt financial machinations, enabled and empowered by the secrecy and instability that are constitutive features of the contemporary-art market. Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constitutive
Adjective
  • Market cycles have always been intrinsic to investing.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an intrinsic magic that happens on board.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The idea is to insulate yourself against the market’s inherent volatility, and to have sufficient cash to cover your expenses in a downturn.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Music directors Jordan Summers and Nick Vincent did a classic song that passes too quickly on record a great service by extending it by a few choruses, giving Valentine a chance to wring the emotion out of it that was only inherent in Zevon’s necessarily simpler delivery.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ambition, perseverance and integrity are integral to your journey.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This makes sense and is integral to our story.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For me, it’s been really essential to read a lot of great information, and to come at the world filled with knowledge and all these ideas of, in my view, much smarter and braver people than myself.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But fostering creativity, curiosity, and empathy are also essential for organizations to remain competitive and resilient.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Constitutive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constitutive. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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