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Recent Examples of resourcefulness
Coach Kyle Shanahan's call for a trick-play pass from receiver Jauan Jennings to McCaffrey for a 29-yard touchdown to take the lead in the fourth quarter reflected this team's incredible resourcefulness during a season marked by attrition.
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Mike Sando, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But the defending champs couldn’t match the Niners’ resourcefulness.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
The Chargers have taken their lumps in the first year of the move to Division I, but coaches Ted Hotaling and Debbie Buff have shown quite a bit of resourcefulness.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Hữu Huân Egg coffee traces its origin to the resourcefulness of Nguyen Giang, a bartender at what is now the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, who experimented with alternatives to milk when there were shortages during the 1946 Anti-French Resistance War (also called First Indochina War).
—Arundhati Hazra, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
As a hub of resourcefulness, creativity is woven throughout every corner of Asheville, North Carolina.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
Outdoor structures encourage exploration while reflecting the legend of shipwrecked fishermen who founded Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, instilling a sense of adventure and resourcefulness.
—Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
The team, however, was impressed with his work on television and his apparent resourcefulness in telling action-adventure stories.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
This resourcefulness runs deep in the culture, not just in home kitchens, but also in award-winning restaurants.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Mike Sando, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But the defending champs couldn’t match the Niners’ resourcefulness.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
The Chargers have taken their lumps in the first year of the move to Division I, but coaches Ted Hotaling and Debbie Buff have shown quite a bit of resourcefulness.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Hữu Huân Egg coffee traces its origin to the resourcefulness of Nguyen Giang, a bartender at what is now the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, who experimented with alternatives to milk when there were shortages during the 1946 Anti-French Resistance War (also called First Indochina War).
—Arundhati Hazra, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
As a hub of resourcefulness, creativity is woven throughout every corner of Asheville, North Carolina.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
Outdoor structures encourage exploration while reflecting the legend of shipwrecked fishermen who founded Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, instilling a sense of adventure and resourcefulness.
—Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
The team, however, was impressed with his work on television and his apparent resourcefulness in telling action-adventure stories.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
This resourcefulness runs deep in the culture, not just in home kitchens, but also in award-winning restaurants.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourcefulness
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Evidence of a rapid growth in cities between the twelfth and eighth centuries BCE and of food shortages as early as the tenth century BCE suggests that the population may have outstripped the productivity of the land.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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Yet the demand for AI expertise remains strong in the banking, health care, retail, and pharmaceutical industries, whose businesses are racing to deploy generative AI tools to improve productivity and decision-making—and keep up with the competition.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Jan. 2026
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Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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The South Bronx was also a fount of artistic fecundity, where poets, musicians, artists, and dancers created hip-hop.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Several important new characters—including a pregnant woman (Mirren Mack) who fights back against the Jimmys with ingenuity and courage—are never clearly introduced by name, and the unfathomably vicious deaths that await most of them seem only to compound their anonymity.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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The Drone represents a unique period of British automotive ingenuity, when manufacturers worked around strict economic and taxation constraints.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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That might mean agreeing to time limits of two hours at family gatherings, capping visits to only once a week, or deciding certain topics (like finances, fertility, or parenting choices) are off the table.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
20 Jan. 2026
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There are more than 100 rodent control chemicals that remain available for use on private land under current regulations, including humane types that do not move up the food chain, such as chemicals that control rodent fertility.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Jan. 2026
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The movie is like a version of Waiting for Guffman (1996) in which the Christopher Guest character was not a buffoon but an earnest striver with grit and (significant) talent.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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That’s because North Crowley’s talent development, depth, culture and recent success have put the school in a position to compete for championships.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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This innovative approach not only speeds the design process but also frees up designers to focus on more creative tasks, demonstrating how AI can be used as a tool to augment human creativity rather than replace it.—
Li Jun,
Footwear News,
11 Jan. 2026
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As a member of the Fine Art League of Cupertino, Choudhury volunteers his time and creativity to help people connect and grow through art.—
Diana Argabrite,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Resourcefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourcefulness. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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