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Recent Examples of providence Trump’s 90-minute acceptance speech, which quickly moved from providence to policy and jabs at his opponent, President Joe Biden, was almost secular compared to some speakers earlier in the evening. Chris Ullery, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024 The concepts of divine intervention and providence have a long record in American history. Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2024 For Rao, there was a sense of providence throughout the production. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024 Her interviewees’ lives are scaffolded by a sincere belief in providence, in which their religious faith often plays a major role. Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for providence
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Noun
  • Regardless of how the $30 million in savings will be spent in the future, Blaylock’s assertion that the grants weren’t supposed to help families buy computers goes against what’s in the legislative record.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Keep the savings coming with more tech deals on Amazon today!
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fans have bought into the vision of multiple general managers and the potential of a long list of high draft picks.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Amid an atmosphere of near-zero interest rates, venture-capital investors were drawn to grand plans and messianic visions, both of which Thurston was skilled at providing.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Our economy has shifted to higher-value roles like design, services and assembly.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Renault hasn’t sold cars stateside since the 1980s, making these tariffs less of a worry when funding its F1 team (Alpine), beyond overall additional financial constraints amid the turbulent global economy.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her business sense and forethought guaranteed that she be paid all the money negotiated in her two-year contract, but the show was cancelled in its first season.
    Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Parking them outside takes some forethought and a good lock.
    Elizabeth Endicott, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Woman Makes 'Creepy' Find In Thrift Store By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 A thrift store shopper from Scotland stumbled on something unexpected in her local store when a beautiful glass paperweight caught her eye.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Creating sustainability fashion maps that inform users of thrift pop-ups, repair shops and donation drives, is another goal.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Otherwise, there needs to be prudence, since the Heat are poised to potentially get back in the cap-space race in the 2026 offseason, when the contracts of Duncan Robinson and Terry Rozier come off the books.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
  • What critics of interventionism have historically sought is prudence in foreign affairs—avoiding unnecessary wars while ensuring the protection of core national interests.
    Andrew Latham, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But while the fine dining scene is flourishing, the everyday staples still tell a story of hardship, frugality, and a desire to waste nothing.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, people could do worse than to embrace some prudence and frugality.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment.
    Steve Greene, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex frameworks.
    Boris Kreiman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Providence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/providence. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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