as in skilled
able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems
a resourceful leader
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Recent Examples of resourceful
Young filmmakers today are resourceful, technically sophisticated, and globally connected.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
17 June 2026
Were those 1914 Reds resourceful enough to throw eight hitless innings and still find a way to cough up 13 runs?
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Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
There’s plucky and resourceful Shu, who has an ear for useful gossip and who has fiercely protected her sisters all season long.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
17 June 2026
Were those 1914 Reds resourceful enough to throw eight hitless innings and still find a way to cough up 13 runs?
—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
There’s plucky and resourceful Shu, who has an ear for useful gossip and who has fiercely protected her sisters all season long.
—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.
—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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It is stored in plain text in RAM and can theoretically be accessed by administrators, cloud operators, hypervisors, or highly skilled attackers through malware, insider threats, or side-channel attacks.
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Alan was successful, intelligent, social and well-liked.
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Our goal is not to tell you what to think, but to give you the essential knowledge and understanding to come to your own intelligent conclusions.
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See, for me, naming a snowplow isn’t just about clever wordplay.
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Later in the day, your mind finds a clever solution, a useful contact or a whole new point of view.
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The truly remarkable thing about this country is its ingenious ability—through elections, immigration, freedom of speech, and economic mobility—to constantly remake itself.
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Our limitless ability to destroy is matched only by our ingenious ability to recover.
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My super-duper smart friend Ben Affleck is very well educated on it and has just sold that company to Netflix.
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They were meant to be read and thought about by an interested and educated public, as the authors understood the importance of public opinion not simply to the ratification process but to any democratic system.
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The Colombia margin would have been larger but for the brilliant play of Ghana goalkeeper Lawrence Ati Zigi, who twice came up with two-handed saves to prevent goals.
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The winner of 28 Grammys, Jones was a music producer, band leader, composer, arranger, television producer, music executive, conductor, trumpet player, civil rights activist, philanthropist and all-around brilliant person.
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The bottom line Borrowers need to be judicious in their mortgage rate approach as the June Fed meeting looms.
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Patton’s judicious use of effects and vocal timbres maximizes the Avetts’ various mise-en-scène atmospheres.
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Hundreds of millions of people are using its generative AI tools each week, so people are beginning to tap into the power of these generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and large language models (LLMs).
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Even trained and experienced guides may violate emotional or interpersonal boundaries of participants, who are in vulnerable and suggestible states brought on by the effects of the drugs themselves.
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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