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Recent Examples of meaningfulness
Energage surveyed 2,375 organizations throughout 2025 and recognized 1,661 thanks to their standout employee feedback on factors like pay and benefits, direction and leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation.
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Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
This approach addresses a major tension in education research – cocreating educational resources with the people they are intended for enhances usability, meaningfulness and effectiveness.
—Andres Bustamante, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The survey asks employees for their feedback on such factors as pay and benefits, direction, leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation.
—Bob Helbig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
Targets who were unable to clarify why they were being neglected felt greater threats to belonging, self-esteem and meaningfulness.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
This approach addresses a major tension in education research – cocreating educational resources with the people they are intended for enhances usability, meaningfulness and effectiveness.
—Andres Bustamante, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The survey asks employees for their feedback on such factors as pay and benefits, direction, leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation.
—Bob Helbig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
Targets who were unable to clarify why they were being neglected felt greater threats to belonging, self-esteem and meaningfulness.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfulness
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The beauty and persuasiveness of Claude’s response to Marks alone may be cause for skepticism, because personalization is one of Claude’s core product features.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
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The study released Thursday is not the first to try to measure the persuasiveness of AI.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
4 Dec. 2025
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In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.—
Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov. 2025
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TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2025
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Jackson’s allies have emphasized the forcefulness of his message and convictions.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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While most players publicly say they don’t wish to be traded, there was a forcefulness in Rust’s tone when the topic would arise.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Although the crew is still experiencing a whirlwind of emotions, Koch said one silver lining is their ability to sleep in any time zone that offers some shut-eye.—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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And this complex web of emotions is what Claire and Jamie are grappling with when Bree, Roger, Marsali, and her children arrive at Fraser’s Ridge to inform them that their son is dead.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Some effort at persuasion seemed to be an accepted precondition for war.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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Reluctance to commit to a binary political persuasion also fuels the feisty remarks and damage-control campaigns of Oklahoma’s Zach Bryan and the pressure on Tennessee crossover folk-pop star and rapper Jelly Roll to honor his Grammys promise to state his position on ICE.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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Weekend weather starts sunny and turns showery Unseasonable warmth by April standards continues Friday into Saturday.—
Steven Sosna,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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This year’s winner, Deaf, does exactly that – with courage, warmth, and rare authenticity.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
15 Apr. 2026
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Johnson was already well aware of Wilkins’ intensity.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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And yet the Panthers laid it all out on the ice all season, playing with the same intensity as the past three years even if the names on the backs of the jerseys weren’t the ones Panthers fans were normally accustomed to seeing by season’s end.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Meaningfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfulness. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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