successful
adjective
suc·cess·ful
sək-ˈses-fəl 
1
: resulting or terminating in success
a successful attempt
2
: gaining or having gained success
a successful investor
successfulness
noun
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Examples of successful in a Sentence
the play had a successful run on Broadway
sold their successful dry-cleaning business and retired to Hawaii
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The plan has been very successful in lowering inflation, allowing the President to deliver on one of his key campaign promises.
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Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
One of her most successful plays, Roar, appeared Off Broadway in 2004, starring Annabella Sciorra as a Palestinian woman named Hala.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Watch on Deadline The successful vote for the Amazon Labor Union took place in April 2022.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
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Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
One of her most successful plays, Roar, appeared Off Broadway in 2004, starring Annabella Sciorra as a Palestinian woman named Hala.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Watch on Deadline The successful vote for the Amazon Labor Union took place in April 2022.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
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successful
adjective
suc·cess·ful
sək-ˈses-fəl
1
: resulting or ending in success
2
: gaining or having gained success
successfulness
noun
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