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
That volatility can be appealing to investors looking for opportunistic upside, especially in the current market.
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Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Or would he be seen as too extreme, too inexperienced, too opportunistic, and too blatantly the lover of the limelight?
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Do said for her, Tet — a holiday that celebrates the end of one lunar new year and the start of the next — comes with opportunistic meaning.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026
His view, many colleagues felt, was ideological, whereas Bartell’s seemed more opportunistic.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
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Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Or would he be seen as too extreme, too inexperienced, too opportunistic, and too blatantly the lover of the limelight?
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Do said for her, Tet — a holiday that celebrates the end of one lunar new year and the start of the next — comes with opportunistic meaning.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026
His view, many colleagues felt, was ideological, whereas Bartell’s seemed more opportunistic.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opportunistic
Adjective
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While their offer was aggressive, the deal wasn’t done in a numbers vacuum.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2026
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Slater had been particularly aggressive against Big Tech companies during her tenure.—
Allie Canal,
NBC news,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Davis played 686 snaps — a 298-snap increase from the previous season — and was diligent about his fitness and conditioning.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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The same goes for diligent skin care.—
Elizabeth Gulino,
Allure,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But there’s real depth in how the screenplay also shows Archie Madekwe’s charismatic aspiring singer running face-first into the contradictions of building his brand on being an internet goofball.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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And his generosity continued with the Soul Food Sessions series which was aimed at promoting Black chefs and raising money to provide aspiring chefs of color with scholarships to attend culinary school.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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Today brings preliminary matches for women’s ice hockey, qualification runs for men’s big-air snowboarding, and, of course, more curling, which is the only sport industrious enough to have events every day through the Olympics.—
The Editors,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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During the night, an enterprising photographer with a telephoto lens sneaked upstairs in a building opposite Children’s and found a window in line with Patrick’s room.—
Steven Levingston,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
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Keen observers, Anglophiles, and anyone who watches movies made before 1972 will notice more than a casual similarity to Kind Hearts and Coronets, the old Ealing comedy in which an enterprising young Dennis Price attempts to off his relatives in order to claim the family fortune.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The humanoid demonstrated highly dynamic parkour skills upon being trained using the framework.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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The exhibition reimagines graffiti as a dynamic cultural force and blends two and three-dimensional works together.—
Alyson Rodriguez,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Opportunistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunistic. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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