Examples of salutary in a Sentence
The accident should be a salutary lesson to be more careful.
the low interest rates should have a salutary effect on business
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Yet Xi probably sees such suffering among the high command as having a salutary effect.
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Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Yet Xi probably sees such suffering among the high command as having a salutary effect.
—Jonathan A. Czin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
Deep fakes may indeed have salutary uses in educational settings.
—Daniel J. Feldman, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
The further cuts that are included are politically motivated handouts that make the tax code more complicated, undoing much of the salutary simplification from the TCJA.
—The Editors, National Review, 23 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for salutary
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“Salutary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salutary. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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salutary
adjective
sal·u·tary
ˈsal-yə-ˌter-ē 
1
: producing a good result
2
: furthering good health
salutariness
noun
Medical Definition
salutary
adjective
sal·u·tary
ˈsal-yə-ˌter-ē
: promoting health : curative
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