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Recent Examples of meaningful Through her firm and personal initiatives, Elektra’s vision is to provide the guidance and opportunities artists need to thrive and create in the US, while fostering growth and making lasting, meaningful changes. Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025 Over the past four years, an extraordinary group of Black women worked at the highest levels of government, shaping policy, driving meaningful change and serving the nation in pivotal roles. Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Jan. 2025 And someone shouldn’t have to do all that to live a meaningful life. Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025 The app emphasizes quality connections over endless texting, offering a seamless platform for users to meet in person and engage in meaningful relationships. Katcy Stephan, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for meaningful 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningful
Adjective
  • The autopsy revealed evidence that was suggestive, but nothing in the pathologist’s report, not even the shot in the left side of the head, could totally rule out suicide.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Zuckerberg has just recently emerged from his own masculinist makeover, which turned him from a pale coder to a buff and bronzed bro, and his openly suggestive glance at Sanchez’s exposed chest seemed like an appropriate capstone to Trump’s Inaugural Address.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Get best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore for just $2.50 $1 per month for 1 year.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
  • How even in difficult times, opportunities to share moments of joy as a community can be so important.
    Kate Lavelle, Glamour, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification By Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens, among the most eloquent and forceful advocates of rejoining the Parthenon marbles, helped tilt me toward the cause of repatriation.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • They’re aided throughout by Bryce Dessner’s string score and eloquent, salt-of-the-earth narration from Will Patton (who also recorded the audiobook, repeating choice lines of Johnson’s at key moments here).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • America’s Got Talent will make a significant change to its judges’ lineup for its forthcoming 20th season.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • However, given this significant price drop, the value has definitely improved.
    Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the lyrics, the Argentine artist reflects on her emotions, which lead her to seek revenge in an expressive manner.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The mix of vulnerability and boldness came through in full force in this performance, which included some audible jitters but also expressive moments where Wang’s milky legato meshed with the attentive, even tender, playing of the lower brass.
    Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In places like Freiburg, where a group of predominantly Syrian immigrants participated in a gang rape that became a major news story, the influx fuelled security fears and anti-immigrant sentiment.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In 2016, Target stated that trans employees and customers could use bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, becoming one of the first major retailers to speak out amid national debates over trans bathroom accessibility.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While Johnson’s tight-lipped texts are far more nonchalant and in most cases less revealing than those of prior mayors, the messages do show the reality of how politicians gossip about their rivals, raise concerns about optics and celebrate wins.
    Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Borenstein assembled all of this into a film that’s not only a revealing bit of journalism on Talankin’s part but a satisfying character study about an independent thinker suddenly faced with totalitarianism.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Amid the rubble and ash, little is left of their historic neighborhood.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Hotels + Resorts In the heart of Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, Forth Hotel Atlanta recently opened in one of the city's most historic neighborhoods.
    Keyaira Boone, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Meaningful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningful. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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