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Recent Examples of meaningfully
Since rates were on the move for most of 2025, your decision now can meaningfully affect returns in 2026.
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Brendan Dyer, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Unfortunately, the Rangers’ limited cap flexibility left them without an avenue to meaningfully boost their offense last summer.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Rather, many Iranians instead blamed the leadership for either provoking the conflict or failing to meaningfully defend the country from Israeli – or American – bombs.
—Kamran Talattof, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
Andrew Alvarez | Afp | Getty Images The arrest of Nicolás Maduro has thrown one of the world's most politically fraught oil industries back into focus, forcing investors to reassess who controls Venezuela's crude resources and whether they can be meaningfully revived after decades of decline.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Short drives between destinations now meaningfully recharge power supplies.
—Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Those med students, cocky know-it-all Ogilvy (Lucas Iverson) and acerbic, perceptive Joy (Irene Choi), are drops in a flood of new faces that mark one of the few ways a show set in a single place can meaningfully scale up.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
Fed up with Tony’s bellicose style and an unwillingness to meaningfully negotiate, Deerfield Beach would have to start its own police force and fire-rescue service — a major undertaking that will take two years.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
By contrast, the surgeon general’s report relies largely on secondary sources and assumes that cancer risk rises with every sip, without identifying a threshold at which harm meaningfully begins.
—Robert M. Kaplan, STAT, 1 Jan. 2026
Brendan Dyer, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Unfortunately, the Rangers’ limited cap flexibility left them without an avenue to meaningfully boost their offense last summer.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Rather, many Iranians instead blamed the leadership for either provoking the conflict or failing to meaningfully defend the country from Israeli – or American – bombs.
—Kamran Talattof, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
Andrew Alvarez | Afp | Getty Images The arrest of Nicolás Maduro has thrown one of the world's most politically fraught oil industries back into focus, forcing investors to reassess who controls Venezuela's crude resources and whether they can be meaningfully revived after decades of decline.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Short drives between destinations now meaningfully recharge power supplies.
—Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Those med students, cocky know-it-all Ogilvy (Lucas Iverson) and acerbic, perceptive Joy (Irene Choi), are drops in a flood of new faces that mark one of the few ways a show set in a single place can meaningfully scale up.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
Fed up with Tony’s bellicose style and an unwillingness to meaningfully negotiate, Deerfield Beach would have to start its own police force and fire-rescue service — a major undertaking that will take two years.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
By contrast, the surgeon general’s report relies largely on secondary sources and assumes that cancer risk rises with every sip, without identifying a threshold at which harm meaningfully begins.
—Robert M. Kaplan, STAT, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfully
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And fourth, if by some miracle the world can muddle through, there is also the risk that advanced AI will displace most people from their jobs, increasing the chance of political backlash that, Amodei writes, might make the task of sensibly addressing the other risks even more difficult.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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Nothing gets done sensibly, however, merely by following rules.—
Philip K. Howard,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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If the answer to that question is no, or more relevantly, not soon enough to satisfy investors’ expectations about the future, then the fallout in global equities could be brutal.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
19 Nov. 2025
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The Her Smell director (and, relevantly, former Kim’s Video clerk) fully taps into his dark side for this sadistic little number about a community terrorized by a child-abducting serial killer.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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At the end of the regular season, 29 points separated the two teams — and perhaps most pertinently, Gotham had never beaten the Current.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Or, more pertinently, the huge pile of cash needed to build that name recognition and get elected to statewide office in California.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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His housing policies catered to the wealthy and real estate elites, failed to adequately invest in public housing and lower-income neighborhoods and greatly increased the city’s affordable housing crisis.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Earlier on Thursday, Judge Curtis Faber rejected Weinstein's bid for a new trial in Haley's case, ruling juror complaints about decorum in the deliberation room were adequately addressed.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
8 Jan. 2026
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To get there, though, many steps have to be taken, from the big ones, like making sure the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule integrate perfectly, to the small ones, like ensuring each astronaut's suit fits comfortably.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Present on each album since 2005’s Feels, he has often been credited with samplers and electronics and has always avoided the spotlight; his habit of wearing a headlamp during concerts perfectly epitomizes his studious, workmanlike role in the band.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
30 Jan. 2026
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Trump officials have long targeted and scrutinized the refugee admissions program, which has historically had bipartisan support, and argued the previous administration didn’t sufficiently vet the people who entered the US.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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And part of that is being sufficiently online.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
30 Jan. 2026
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Greg’s just not that interesting a villain, and whatever Season 3 was doing with him didn’t satisfactorily pay off or, at worst, felt like an extended setup for a Season 4.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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The paintings are serious works of deliberate construction which read satisfactorily as abstractions not unrelated to the work of Caio Fonseca.—
Erin Parish,
Miami Herald,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Meaningfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfully. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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