substantiveness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for substantiveness
Noun
  • Toys, even ones marketed as tools for the imagination, are never value neutral.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But the Bernabeu hierarchy are well aware of the value of their club.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So far, more than 4,000 employees have been laid off, disrupting government services devoted to, among other things, cybersecurity efforts, special education programs, substance abuse treatment and loans for small businesses.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The substance can pollute the environment after nuclear accidents and can persist in soil or water.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The team examined $160 million worth of prime contracts, subcontracts and procurements that the city awarded during the period from 2019 through 2023.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Also in September, robbers stole $11 million worth of porcelain works, described as national treasures, from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in the French town of Limoges.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Raising awareness about the importance of mammograms and prepping patients for discomfort may help.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Research on interpersonal warmth—which, alongside competence, accounts for roughly 82% of how people evaluate others—supports the importance of explicit positive communication.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Naroditsky, who grew up in the Bay Area, first rose to prominence in the chess community at a young age, winning the Under 12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 2007.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Gatsby simply couldn’t have existed without Long Island, and the prominence of the novel’s location was noted from the day of publication, as Anne Margaret Daniel illustrates in her article on the author and his relationship with the New Yorker magazine.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The celebrated sculptor, whose angular, gravity-defying figures are icons of modern art, spent his life exploring form, balance, and the spaces in between.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Kondo’s version is not necessarily religious, but does certainly come with some of the gravity associated with religion.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Whereas other manufacturers of the same size and in the same categories have focused more on production and less on marketing and media, Sharkey said White Oak was keenly aware of its significance.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And its significance cannot be fixed.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some critics have interpreted the ending as a glib last-minute twist that threatens to neutralize the story’s potency and dismisses the seriousness of the movie’s premise.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Industry platforms such as Hong Kong Fashion Fest, initiated and supported by the HKSAR government, should be leveraged not just as celebrations of creativity, but as global stages to showcase our seriousness and leadership in sustainability.
    Sunny Tan, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Substantiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantiveness. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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