meaningfully

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Recent Examples of meaningfully The first step to meaningfully adopting AI is to spend months—often uncomfortable months—getting honest about the state of your data before anything else. Shaz Khan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 Perhaps more meaningfully, just more than 12 of those minutes came in five-on-five situations. Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 26 June 2026 According to C'Ganti, occupancy and collections improved significantly during AG Living’s first eight months and contributed meaningfully to portfolio value, and the team had renovated thousands of interior units and multiple leasing offices over the prior year. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 25 June 2026 Meat usually isn't included in that list; however, there are certain types of meat and seafood that can meaningfully contribute toward your daily magnesium goals, from chicken breast to oysters. Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 June 2026 After he was informed of the student’s death, Finkelstein did not change his practice of signing and approving the cardiovascular test results without meaningfully reviewing them, federal authorities said. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026 That’s a meaningfully higher degree of transparency than the typical CES wellness debut. Allison Palmer updated June 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026 Selling a lower-strike put against it harvests cuts the cost meaningfully while still providing meaningful insurance in a severe downdraft. Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 June 2026 Even paid Meta Verified support, marketed as providing direct access to a human agent, had failed to meaningfully assist some users who were wrongly actioned. Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfully
Adverb
  • Want to refresh your look for the summer months both chicly and sensibly?
    Ana Morales, Vogue, 29 June 2026
  • To protect small businesses, the bill sensibly exempts employers with 25 or fewer employees.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
Adverb
  • More pertinently, while improved forecasts are to be welcomed, United will still fall further behind several rivals this season in the earnings stakes, a natural byproduct of missing out on this season’s UEFA Champions League.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • In the same way characters come and go, bulletins from the outside world pop up as backdrop, with references to The Balfour Declaration and, more pertinently, the upcoming Peel Commission, which, published the following year, would open the gates to partition.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • In my experience, most organizations communicate the outputs of intent without adequately communicating intent itself.
    Majeed Javdani, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Automatic sprinkler systems may not water larger balled and burlapped plants adequately, so monitor the plants and add water with a garden hose as needed.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Adverb
  • The release of the new batch of episodes almost perfectly coincides with an exceptionally rainy, stormy and destructive year for Chicago and Illinois as a whole.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • Flat Tops has an outstanding interconnected trail system linking over 300 miles of backcountry trails that are perfectly suited for multi-day loops.
    Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
Adverb
  • The court of appeal further ruled Guild had sufficiently alleged CCM had aided, and benefited from, then-Guild branch manager Christopher Flowers’s breach of his fiduciary duty to Guild.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Check the temperature again in 24 hours to see if the refrigerator has cooled sufficiently.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
Adverb
  • The bid effort called for explaining how Arrowhead could be contoured to FIFA specifications, an issue that the Chiefs weren’t able to answer satisfactorily before 1994.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • The easiest to do that with might be David Moller Wolfe, who has been unable to dislodge Hugo Bueno from the team but who has generally performed satisfactorily when called up in his debut season.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 12 May 2026

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“Meaningfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfully. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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