How to Use what good in a Sentence
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This is what good teams do, and the Stars are a good team.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
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That's what good folk do. Will be smiling about this from the left coast all evening.
—Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
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After all, what good is a seat at the table if the chair isn’t comfortable?
—Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
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Well, overachieving only in the minds of those who don’t know what good players look like.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
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But, as more than a few hardball politicians have said over the years, what good does politeness get you?
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
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But what good is having one if your most-popular hosts and even your CEO are acting like this?
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
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Tharp said those students may leave the academy with a poor sense of what good leadership looks like.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
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Contradiction, of course, is what good fiction is made of.
—Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2023
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The problem is his team, the Golden State Warriors, aren’t long for these playoffs, and what good is an antagonist off the stage?
—Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
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Be honest — what good is an autumnal equinox without some new tuneage?
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 31 Aug. 2023
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That’s what good college players want to play in, environments like this.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
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Be simple — show these Texans what good taste really is.
—Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
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Humble advocacy in times of crisis is what good Catholics do because Jesus said good works are best done outside the limelight.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
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So much that is beneath the surface has – has now surfaced, again, in terms of questioning the very premises for the – for the war in terms of questioning the conduct of the war, in terms of questioning what good this has actually done for Russia.
—ABC News, 25 June 2023
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Viewed in a generous light, these contests could be seen as a vehicle for Russian soft power in much the same way that American movies defined what good guys and bad guys are supposed to look like for viewers around the world.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
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The idea is rooted in the notion that understanding the world often involves identifying patterns and making sense of complexity, which, as mentioned above, is similar to what good data compression does.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
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