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Adjective
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Amid soaring egg prices, however, the town held an advisory referendum April 1 on whether the village should rethink its policy on backyard chickens.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025 -
Board members are deeply engaged in efforts to develop, evaluate, enhance, or conduct research on health systems, whether in operational, academic, or advisory roles.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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CMOs who take a consultative approach—educating customers, offering helpful content and positioning their brand as a trusted resource—can create deeper, more meaningful relationships.—
Deboshree Sarkar,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Iran also has an elaborate set of overlapping institutions, including a consultative assembly, an assembly of experts, a guardian council, an expediency council, a judiciary, and so on.—
Richard Haass,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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And while the formal rules on travel have relaxed, the admonitory official language is unchanged.—
John Liu,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2023
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Satire has always had an admonitory function, and besides, some people are so obnoxious that a writer has to slow-walk the reader through their awfulness.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2022
Adjective
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As is the way with these premonitory lists, not all games are guaranteed 2025 releases.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
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Fashion observers had also noticed that Swift had introduced a premonitory blue bodysuit into her wardrobe at the Tuesday show.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
9 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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McKinsey could also slash as many as 2,000 non-consulting staff in one of its biggest round of layoffs ever, Bloomberg reported last month, citing unnamed sources close to the matter.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2023
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In an email to AL.com, Jones said Alabama Writers’ Forum will have a consulting role with the initiative, including assisting with publicity and sharing contacts across the state to help promote events or connect delegates with partners.—
Shauna Stuart | sstuart@al.com,
al,
3 Oct. 2022
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“Hortative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hortative. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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