substantiveness

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Noun
  • The median monthly rent and home value are $1,891 and $376,723, respectively.
    Chase Jordan March 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But Trump’s election proved that a sizable contingent of the population had no problem imposing their values on others—and even hoped that the government might do so for them.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Lappen oversaw the county's Behavioral Health Services division, which works with people with mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders.
    Eva Wen, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The half-industrial, half-heavenly record was recorded on the brink of a real-life meltdown; the substances Lean had rapped about so brazenly during his adolescent mixtape era would nearly claim his life.
    Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Italian authorities have impounded 20 million euros ($23 million) worth of property, artworks and financial assets in and around Florence that were allegedly purchased with money stolen from original Bond girl Ursula Andress, Italy’s financial police said in a statement on Thursday.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The luxury hotel brand’s first outpost in Tokyo only opened in autumn 2025, but its faultlessly helpful staff seem to have already accrued a generation’s worth of Japanese hospitality.
    Stephen Kelly, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Situations like this reinforce the importance of responsible ownership, proper training and understanding each individual dog — regardless of breed.
    Tori Mason, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Speakers including County Commission Chairman Mark Jerrell, Juvenile Judge Aretha Blake, and Bridget Happney, senior social services manager at Mecklenburg County Youth and Family Services, spoke about the importance of everyone working together to keep children safe.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Orr hired Campbell away from Oregon, where the coach’s mastery in recruiting helped boost the Ducks to national prominence.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Shah rose to national prominence as Kathmandu’s mayor after winning the post as an independent in 2022.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That is the highest-level designation for severe accidents, placing it alongside the fatal Challenger (1986) and Columbia (2003) shuttle disasters in terms of gravity.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Moon is exceptionally large compared with Earth for a natural satellite, and at only 30 Earth-diameters away from the Earth, its gravity is significant enough to be the dominant factor in determining the oceanic tides that our planet experiences.
    Big Think, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos acknowledged the significance of that fact, saying there’s no one more deserving of that honor than Sale.
    Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Its personal significance is trumpeted by the fact that Haghighi plays one of the two lead roles, a man named Kaveh who is being driven by a woman, Leila (Taraneh Alidoosti), to a remote, wintry mountain region.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • It's done with such seriousness and attention to detail you’d almost be convinced this moon mission succeeded 19 years before Apollo 11's monumental landing.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • At her presser, the Sacramento Bee's Joe Davidson asked Staley about wearing Johnson's shirt and balancing fun with seriousness.
    Megan Armstrong, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
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“Substantiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantiveness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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