cooperativeness

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Noun
  • Passing legislation in this manner, known as reconciliation, is an arduous process, requiring the cooperation of nearly every Republican in both chambers to proceed.
    Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Characteristically, McMurtry wasn’t keen on being the subject of a full biography; Streitfeld, after befriending him, won his cooperation piecemeal.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Trump officials have pointed to research on ivermectin as an example of the administration’s receptiveness to ideas the scientific establishment has rejected.
    Rachana Pradhan, STAT, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This receptiveness led to Ockenfels’ favorite pictures from their partnership — inspired by the facial distortions in the paintings of Francis Bacon — in which bendings of glass were employed to warp Bowie’s likeness.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Several European countries sent just a few soldiers each to the massive island off the coast of Canada in a highly symbolic display of solidarity with Denmark.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The initiative expands on the original campaign launched last year, when the club distributed the first T-shirt in solidarity with Los Angeles’ immigrant communities facing uncertainty in the city due to immigration raids.
    Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Sometimes these shifts are small, noticeable only to the character experiencing them, as when an impending hurricane heightens the narrator’s receptivity to the minor mysteries of humble objects.
    Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes, what needs to be said will be heard best later — after emotions settle and receptivity returns.
    Glenn Kurlander, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For Taylor, that message of unity was on full display during a parade in her honor in Texas earlier this year after the bobsledder won her first gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games at age 41.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Prince Harry visited Kyiv for his third trip in a year, praising Ukrainians’ resilience and unity while urging the nation to maintain togetherness against Russia’s ongoing invasion.
    Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The costars forged a close kinship.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The organization expanded its services to kinship care families in 2022.
    Libby Smith, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The sudden flood of oxytocin accompanying the onset of the drug produces feelings of emotional communion, oneness, and openness.
    Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What’s stripped out at its core—and this is the deepest core of the contemplative traditions—is a non-dual realization of wisdom, an experience of oneness.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The information contained in this article reflects multiple conversations with various sources at the Spanish champions, all of whom wanted to speak anonymously to protect relationships.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Investors had cheered the talks and the prospect of change at a fiercely independent company that had relied on decades-old relationships.
    Edwin Chan, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Cooperativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooperativeness. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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