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Recent Examples of enterprising Two years later, it was resurrected again by an enterprising German immigrant named Walter Staib, an award-winning chef who hailed from a family of celebrated cooks and bakers. James Dodson july 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025 Back in the United States, an enterprising group of suffragists was mounting an ambitious advance of its own: The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was lobbying to get women doctors into the trenches. Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025 The technology also allowed some enterprising music fans to make recordings in surprising and innovative ways. Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 28 May 2025 These include realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enterprising
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Adjective
  • Mid-summer changes to United’s revolving credit facility indicated a switch in strategy, and there was a more aggressive approach in the market following a summit in Iceland between Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The adventurous archaeologist travels the globe looking for missing artifacts and historical treasures.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For something more adventurous, Smyril Line runs a weekly ferry between Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Although the Taiwanese chip titan has kicked off ambitious global expansion plans in the US, Japan and Germany, at least 80% of its production capacity will remain in Taiwan by 2030, according to TrendForce, a market research firm.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As the season progresses, the stories do get more ambitious, and major errors—of reporting practice or of mere conscience—are generally avoided.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The novel isn’t still, either, throwing us into a fast-paced, daring, but tender investigation into the role of ambition in art.
    Eliana Ramage September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As described in a press release, CAOS is the singer’s most daring and intimate body of work yet.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The decision is the latest development in a fierce legal battle over the fate of over 600,000 Venezuelans living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, which shields them from deportation to their homeland in turmoil and grants them the ability to work.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Especially in areas like the fintech world, where competition is extra fierce.
    Eugenia Mykuliak, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Enterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enterprising. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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