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Recent Examples of meaningfulness
Targets who were unable to clarify why they were being neglected felt greater threats to belonging, self-esteem and meaningfulness.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfulness
Noun
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The film’s considerable power depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented—in a series of swift, kinetically composed, and jaggedly edited scenes—seldom feel like choices at all.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.—
Jim Shepard,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Each verse is a heartfelt exploration of sorrow, capturing the complexity of human emotions in the face of separation.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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Her education was a synthesis of Classical and Romantic, with the Scottish grounding in logic, reason and intellectual persuasion given a fillip by the improvisations of Miss Christina Kay.—
Frances Wilson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Brooks’s core message is that the most successful people are not the most forceful, but the most effective communicators who prioritize connection over persuasion.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Honey ginger chicken with brown rice is easy to make and your home will be filled with aromas that hint of warmth and coziness.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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My focus was always trying to bring the kind of complexities of the kink world to the screen…trying to find the warmth in that community rather than be like Prince Albert, whips, chains, and gags.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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Other benefits of acupuncture were pain intensity reduction, an improvement of physical functions, and fewer anxiety symptoms.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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So there’s certainly more intensity and more gore.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Meaningfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfulness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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