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 film follows a 9-year-old girl named Lamia who gets picked at school to bake Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake and must become very resourceful to find the necessary ingredients or face the consequences.
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Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2025
My mom was especially glad that people saw the value of being resourceful and not giving up — something she’s always taught us.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 13 May 2025
Angelo is exceptionally resourceful and talented, the best of the best.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 May 2025
There’s no doubt this recipe was invented by a creative, resourceful Southern dad at some point in the distant past.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2025
My mom was especially glad that people saw the value of being resourceful and not giving up — something she’s always taught us.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 13 May 2025
Angelo is exceptionally resourceful and talented, the best of the best.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 May 2025
There’s no doubt this recipe was invented by a creative, resourceful Southern dad at some point in the distant past.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
Adjective
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State government has made the education and training of skilled aerospace workers an important priority.—
Yogi Tharanibalan,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2025
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The hope, Morrison said, was to encourage employers to bring in skilled workers via the permanent residency pathway, on the theory that immigrants with green cards would, by being on stronger footing, be less likely to undercut wages for Americans than guest workers did.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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Second, a human must be kept in the loop of intelligent machine decision-making processes.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues.—
Philip Ball,
Wired News,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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The argument that Trump has violated the 10th Amendment is a clever subversion of a line of thinking that has traditionally been backed by conservative judges, said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Barenaked Ladies, Sugar Ray and Fastball Three lively, strident bands known for clever lyrics and fun banter relive the 1990s for you on July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Katherine Ralston View 1 Images Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms.—
Jay Kakade
May 24,
New Atlas,
24 May 2025
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Only Bay, Stahelski, Chow, and Snyder create ingenious, breakneck visions of force.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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In part, young women today are more educated than men their age and have greater focus on professional ambition and individual growth.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Others, Fontana said, may be embarrassed about inadvertently harming themselves; botanical users in his 2024 research were older, wealthier and more educated than nonusers.—
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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The brilliant fruits of tessellated talents at opposite sides of the world.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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The Emerald Coast beaches have fine quartz crystal sand and brilliant green waters, which give the coastline its eponymous name.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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The eggplant is first salted then quickly dipped in flour and egg batter, rolled with a mixture of ricotta cheese, spinach, and Parmesan then baked, not deep-fried, with a judicious amount of tomato sauce.—
John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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LLMs contain multitudes—indeed, they’ve been used, somewhat controversially, in psychology experiments to anticipate people’s behavior—and their use could be more judicious as people are empowered to recognize that.—
Jonathan L. Zittrain,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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Narrative medicine, an increasingly popular scholarly field developed at Columbia University by the internist and literary scholar Rita Charon, aims to improve medical care by helping clinicians more fully understand their patients’ stories and perspectives.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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Most of the remaining Kashmiri Hindus, primarily from the scholarly Pandit community, fled after a wave of religious attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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