as in skilled
able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems
a resourceful leader
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Recent Examples of resourceful
But the bereft Galatea, both beautiful and resourceful, changed Acis into an immortal spirit of a river so that their love would never die.
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Rather, the world was becoming more resourceful with its distractions: futility is easier to banish than death.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Alice Nelson In the series, Alice is the resourceful, witty housekeeper who can do it all.
—Athena Sobhan, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
Ever resourceful, his beloved character always overcame disaster in time for the next movie.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Rather, the world was becoming more resourceful with its distractions: futility is easier to banish than death.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Alice Nelson In the series, Alice is the resourceful, witty housekeeper who can do it all.
—Athena Sobhan, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
Ever resourceful, his beloved character always overcame disaster in time for the next movie.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
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The loss of this skilled support would place a greater burden on active-duty soldiers, who are not trained for many of these back-end roles.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Hurley said postgame that Florida’s roster construction — especially the Gators’ skilled two-way bigs and glut of perimeter threats — reminded him of his own rosters, at least for most of the past three seasons.—
Brendan Marks,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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Recognizing team members regularly enhances your emotional intelligence (EI) and creates a more emotionally intelligent workplace.—
Luciana Paulise,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Mechanical arms work on the production line of electronic products for new-energy vehicles in an intelligent workshop at a factory in the high-tech industrial park on February 6, 2025 in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province of China.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
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Classical methods of solving these problems, which often involve churning through possible solutions in clever ways, quickly become untenable.—
Stephen Ornes,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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The cut and fit of these is almost bespoke, and very clever.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2025
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Some of his songs included a subtly subversive degree of dissonance, along with unexpected melodic and rhythmic turns, an ingenious use of texture and counterpoint, and instrumental combinations more commonly heard in chamber-music ensembles or jazz groups.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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One ingenious dish featured a tomato that had been dehydrated, then rehydrated in concentrated tomato water—the tomato deepened by more of itself.—
Coke Bartrina,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2025
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While officials have always made educated guesses about setup impact, this tool crunches numbers in a way that should bring more precision to the task while also speeding up decision making.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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This—and many other reasons—is why educated human beings will always be needed to forecast the weather.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There’s even a $90 discount on this 50-inch Insignia Fire TV that provides access to millions of movies and television episodes in brilliant 4K quality.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Nemesis is the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of what happens when an unstoppable force (an expert criminal), Coltrane Wilder (Noel), meets an immovable object (a brilliant police detective), Isaiah Stiles (Law).—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Football Observatory reports that the average transfer fee in the 2022/23 season approximated €4 million—a testament to the economic potential of judicious talent management.—
Priya Oberoi,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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As is often the case with slow-burn horror built on judicious restraint, those climactic events are arguably less effective in their relative explicitness than the preceding unease.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2025
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There is a long running scholarly debate dedicated to answering this question, and there is certainly room for improvement in how aid is allocated and executed.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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My scholarly research on the right to appeal explores how this process serves as a crucial safeguard in the country’s legal system.—
Cassandra Burke Robertson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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