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Recent Examples of enterprising Last year, Flores came through for Liam Rader, an enterprising boy who had sold lemonade in Ramona for over a year to raise money for a dirt bike. Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025 His enterprising coverage of the Defense Department has shed light on everything from MRAP vehicles credited with savings lives and limbs, to the Army's suicide crisis. Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 Mary’s enterprising sister Edith (Laura Carmichael) devises a plan to invite Coward, in whose show their friend Guy Dexter (Dominic West), now secretly in a relationship with their former servant Thomas (Robert James-Collier), is appearing. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025 Straus was enterprising and handsome, with small round spectacles, an angular nose, and a coarse, peppery beard. Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enterprising
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enterprising
Adjective
  • The Dallas Cowboys and team owner Jerry Jones have been very interested in the idea of getting aggressive ahead of the upcoming NFL trade deadline.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike their alligator cousins, which are known to occasionally attack people, American crocodiles are shyer and less aggressive.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Her adventurous spirit never dimmed.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Miguel kick-started his career with his adventurous 2012 debut, Kaleidoscope Dream, an LP that mixed rock, soul, and psychedelia into a freewheeling sound he’s been nuancing ever since, often in music that’s taken on a moodier, more anxious tone.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The ambitious approach to the series featured the first-ever open-world campaign, and 343 Industries had plans to regularly add to it for years with story DLC, split-screen co-op (which it was supposed to launch with), and more.
    Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • An ambitious journey Construction began in 2019 but faced several delays due to its intricate design and the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Naomi Watts also went sheer in a daring look from Valentino’s spring 2025 couture collection, which featured a voluminous skirt with a lacy top.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The thieves who brazenly robbed the Louvre Museum in Paris and stole priceless jewelry in one of the most daring museum heists in recent memory may have been hired by a private collector, officials said.
    Bonny Chu , Ronn Blitzer, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Children’s Health Defense, the organization Kennedy built into one of the fiercest foes of childhood vaccines, took interest in the Idaho bill early on.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Two-time All Pro linebacker James Harrison led a fierce Pittsburgh Steelers defense for years, winning Defensive Player of the Year in 2008.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Enterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enterprising. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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