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
The people that farm or garden are very interesting, very resourceful, very astute.
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Greg Allen, NPR, 1 June 2025
In the spirit of the very resourceful city of Naples, Procino stuck a big TV on the street outside, to make sure their evening wasn’t spoiled.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
One of Dickens’s most enduring relationships is with David Milch, who created Deadwood and cast Dickens as the loyal, resourceful, and kind madam Joanie Stubbs in his mellifluously vulgar series about the infamous frontier town.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Cybercriminals are resourceful when deceiving users by crafting content and evading detection patterns (customization of content, copy of graphical charter, etc.).
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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Greg Allen, NPR, 1 June 2025
In the spirit of the very resourceful city of Naples, Procino stuck a big TV on the street outside, to make sure their evening wasn’t spoiled.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
One of Dickens’s most enduring relationships is with David Milch, who created Deadwood and cast Dickens as the loyal, resourceful, and kind madam Joanie Stubbs in his mellifluously vulgar series about the infamous frontier town.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Cybercriminals are resourceful when deceiving users by crafting content and evading detection patterns (customization of content, copy of graphical charter, etc.).
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for resourceful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
Adjective
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Before June 8, the skilled and respected ABC News television journalist Terry Moran was neither a household name nor political lightning rod.—
Steven Levy,
Wired News,
27 June 2025
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The necessary conditions are in place: computational power, broad access to distribution channels, a growing pool of skilled talent and rising global demand.—
Vlad Panin,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Lucy’s colleagues refer to men like him—tall, handsome, in finance, intelligent, urbane—as unicorns.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Celebrate intelligent risk-taking, not just polished outcomes.—
Bill Fischer,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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Even the cleverest plans leave room for a little improvisation.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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This clever deck box works overtime as a bench for additional seating.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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Install Coyote Rollers These ingenious devices are long, spinning bars mounted to the fence top.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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The approach was ingenious: extract fragments of DNA circulating in the bloodstream—the same shards first glimpsed by Mandel and Métais nearly seven decades earlier—and sequence them to identify abnormalities in the regulation of gene expression that are indicative of cancer.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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Often, CISOs must make educated guesses about the frequency and impact of digital threats, which can undermine their credibility in front of the board.—
Steve Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Kennedy has lauded the new ACIP appointees as a team of educated and capable advisers.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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And all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
22 June 2025
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The fit is brilliant, and the Rockets don’t really lose any of their depth or identity with it.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Like many former holdouts, Kevin felt that his judicious use of A.I. was more defensible than his peers’ use of it.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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The way to do it is with judicious use of strong contrast colours, and that’s exactly what Nike has done here, with those pinks, blues and reds underneath the armpits and down the side of the shorts.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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The Schomburg Center has long been the heart of Harlem’s ongoing Renaissance—from the 1920s until the present moment —the neighborhood teems with an energy of artistic and scholarly abundance that, in turn, shapes political and cultural discourse not just in New York City but across the country.—
Essence,
Essence,
19 June 2025
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Much of the design was informed by a 25-page scholarly paper on how to govern such a city, written by a professor of sociology specifically for the show.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2025
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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