generative

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Recent Examples of generative In recent years, though, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically changed the landscape. Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026 In the early days of the generative artificial intelligence boom, Sanofi’s chief digital officer, Emmanuel Frenehard, wasn’t particularly impressed with the AI tools that were being pitched. John Kell, Fortune, 27 May 2026 The genre also, somewhat accidentally, coincided with the rise of generative-AI art. David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026 While the Facebook and Instagram parent posted top and bottom line beats, investors didn't like management's decision to spend even more on generative AI moving forward. Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 27 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for generative
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Adjective
  • Alex Young of Hidden Pictures will also exec produce, with Honey Trap’s Kaylee McGregor co-producing, and Chelsea Kujawa and Maria Ascanio overseeing the film for Lionsgate.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 June 2026
  • Since then, Sweeney has scaled up her ambition in acting and producing; never busier, Sweeney could well receive another Emmy nomination this summer.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • The scenario is an old-fashioned when-you-wish-upon-a-monkey’s-paw chestnut, the kind that’s been fertile ground for everybody from Stephen King to The Simpsons.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
  • The males — all living in a 200-square-mile area of farms and wilderness outside Naples — seek mates and lead the biologists to large, fertile females holding up to 100 egg follicles.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
Adjective
  • Mentor126 regards this as a useful lens for adaptive learning design, where AI may adjust difficulty, format, content, and pacing to help learners find their ‘flow,’ the productive learning zones during work tasks.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Thus far, the ACC has been most productive at putting a green veneer on policies that will only accelerate climate disasters.
    Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 9 June 2026
Adjective
  • There is only one Picasso, but Basquiat had that kind of fecund imagination, that endlessly varied and prolific joy.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • The negative space between gems becomes animal habitats for creatures drawn from the depths of a fecund imagination.
    Kate Matthams, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • While being on a major label was largely a fruitful experience for them, Death Cab recognized that times had changed.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • This began his historically fruitful and eventually rocky relationship with Bill Murray, as Belushi recruited the two comedians to work for the National Lampoon Radio Hour.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Adjective
  • Despite being one of the most prolific child actors of the 1960s, what he was connected to more than anything else was music.
    Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • Tour the prolific Spanish painter’s studio from the post-war years at what’s now the Picasso Museum, housed in a former château in the old town.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
Adjective
  • Gold rose on Tuesday, but remained on track for its steepest monthly decline since October 2008, as persistent inflation worries and expectations of higher interest rates due to the impact of the Iran war weighed on the non-yielding metal.
    Ashitha Shivaprasad, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The prospect of higher interest rates as a result of the war could boost government bonds among investors, at the expense of non-yielding precious metals, market strategists told CNBC recently.
    Joseph Wilkins,Hugh Leask, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The discovery is so surprising because even though AGNs are rich with gas and dust — the building blocks of planets — the turbulent conditions within the disks wouldn't generally be considered ideal for forming planets.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 June 2026
  • Gardena and salted amber give this shimmery body mist a rich, tropical vacation sort of scent profile.
    Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 14 June 2026

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“Generative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generative. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.

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