hortative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hortative
Adjective
  • The firms that act now—by broadening talent pipelines, investing in advisory skills and using AI to relieve capacity constraints—can be better positioned to compete in a market that’s demanding more and moving faster.
    Paul Peterson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Trump's advisory team has differing opinions regarding the meeting.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Use interactive content, consultative selling and real-time conversations to show impact, not just talk about it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Specifically, the senior casualty actuary performs a wide variety of consultative and analytical assignments associated with aspects of property and casualty insurance rate regulation.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And while the formal rules on travel have relaxed, the admonitory official language is unchanged.
    John Liu, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Satire has always had an admonitory function, and besides, some people are so obnoxious that a writer has to slow-walk the reader through their awfulness.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
Adjective
  • As is the way with these premonitory lists, not all games are guaranteed 2025 releases.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Fashion observers had also noticed that Swift had introduced a premonitory blue bodysuit into her wardrobe at the Tuesday show.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
Adjective
  • McKinsey could also slash as many as 2,000 non-consulting staff in one of its biggest round of layoffs ever, Bloomberg reported last month, citing unnamed sources close to the matter.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In an email to AL.com, Jones said Alabama Writers’ Forum will have a consulting role with the initiative, including assisting with publicity and sharing contacts across the state to help promote events or connect delegates with partners.
    Shauna Stuart | sstuart@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2022
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“Hortative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hortative. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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