as in aggressive
attentive to and ready to act on opportunities for personal gain or advancement
The opportunistic salesperson was always on the lookout for potential new customers.
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Recent Examples of opportunistic
Bringing food back for the new litter is essential to their survival, but coyotes are opportunistic eaters.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
Coronary artery calcium Coronary artery calcium, or CAC, is probably the best demonstration of what opportunistic screening can accomplish.
—Peter Gunderman, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
Understanding Raccoon Behavior Raccoons are opportunistic feeders, chowing down on whatever’s readily available.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Thus far, though, Denver’s been all opportunistic and hardly aggressive.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
Coronary artery calcium Coronary artery calcium, or CAC, is probably the best demonstration of what opportunistic screening can accomplish.
—Peter Gunderman, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
Understanding Raccoon Behavior Raccoons are opportunistic feeders, chowing down on whatever’s readily available.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Thus far, though, Denver’s been all opportunistic and hardly aggressive.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opportunistic
Adjective
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Brvenik, 44, was diagnosed in 2024 with leiomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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Your sense of self takes the lead as the Moon, presently in your sign, opposes aggressive Mars across your partnership zone.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some reviewers are unhappy with slow results — but Hers products are most effective when used consistently for a minimum of three months, and there’s no way of knowing how diligent these reviewers were.—
Rebecca Strong,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Herzog depicts the bushmen who aid Boyes as dignified, diligent and intelligent without romanticizing them while capturing the rugged beauty of the African landscape.—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This one follows an aspiring bull-rider, but the prose is a little left-of-center for the Bard As any Dylanologist could tell you.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
31 Mar. 2026
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An aspiring writer as a teenager, Burden turned her focus to law in college, earning a degree in Juvenile and Immigration Law from New York University.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But what do real beaver experts actually do to study these industrious creatures?—
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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Otto Rehhagel engineered four industrious victories against hosts Portugal (in both the group stage and the semis), France and the Czech Republic, with goals from corners winning them their semi-final and the final by 1-0 scorelines.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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This was little more than a wooden shack beside a convenience store and a karaoke parlor, all of them run by an enterprising resident who had already buried 200 people in the 12 months since Duterte had taken office, nearly all of them drug suspects.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Together, the observations present Saturn as a layered and dynamic world.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Brooks Ghost 17 A blend of soft and dynamic cushioning in the midsole, plus forefoot flex grooves, help the Ghost 17 roll smoothly and comfortably for miles.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside,
26 Mar. 2026
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