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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
That said, bootlegged releases are out there, and resourceful individuals can find places to stream the show with some creative Googling.
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Dale Obbie, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Brianne Howey as Georgia Miller Georgia is the resourceful mom stops at nothing – not even the law – to create the best possible life for her two children, Ginny and Austin.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Prioritize In-Person The pandemic showed us that virtual meetings were not only possible, but an effective and resourceful way to gather.
—Michelle Mekky, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Sellers has been resourceful in finding Division II players in the transfer portal.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
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Dale Obbie, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Brianne Howey as Georgia Miller Georgia is the resourceful mom stops at nothing – not even the law – to create the best possible life for her two children, Ginny and Austin.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Prioritize In-Person The pandemic showed us that virtual meetings were not only possible, but an effective and resourceful way to gather.
—Michelle Mekky, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Sellers has been resourceful in finding Division II players in the transfer portal.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resourceful
Adjective
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The team must be skilled in rigorous experimentation to enable translation of data into meaningful insights.—
Mohit Agrawal,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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That kind of determination and sacrifice is tough to find in a person, let alone a talented videographer who was also a skilled hunter in his own right.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The scaling hypothesis—the belief that bigger models will produce more intelligent outputs—seems to rest on the dubious belief that a system that has been fed enough information about the world will not have to deal with fuzziness.—
Meghan O’Gieblyn,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Across a wide network, each unit can become intelligent by deploying state-of-the-art technologies and AI, but also by gaining easy access to insights from more successful locations.—
Andrei Danescu,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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The most memorable of those came against Sheffield United, with two blockers at the near post (marked in white) and two runners from deep (black) allowing Pascal Struijk (yellow) to score from Joe Rothwell’s clever corner.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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The result is a hollow movie—but its very hollowness gives rise to a diabolical twist that’s more than merely clever.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Ovalle leaves Tigres as the club’s all-time leading goalscorer, and one of her goals, against Chivas Guadalajara earlier this year, is being put forward as a possible contender for the best goal of the year in all of soccer, thanks to the ingenious nature of the finish.—
James Nalton,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Luthor has always been an ingenious nemesis for the invulnerable Superman: a merely intelligent human, an evildoing Prometheus out to steal fire from our benevolent cape-wearing god.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Government making educated guesses on prices of more goods The cutbacks come as economists are on the lookout for signs that Trump's tariffs could rekindle inflation.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
5 June 2025
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Traditional troubleshooting requires engineering teams to comb through dashboards, sift through alerts, and make educated guesses under pressure.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Rob McCord is a brilliant attorney, capable of managing high-level budget deliberations while also engaging his mind creatively — whether in another language or in poetry.—
Aegis reader commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Aug. 2025
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If Jefferson is limited in any way, the wide receiver cupboard is not exactly stocked with brilliant talent.—
Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Leaders have to remain fair, impartial and judicious in their actions—too much empathy can cloud all this.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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But be judicious about application and follow the label instructions because these products kill beneficial bugs, too.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
24 Aug. 2025
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The critics were not defending scholarly standards, but their exclusive claim to setting those standards.—
Ilya Shapiro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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These are scholarly works that some students initially struggle to comprehend.—
Nicole Donawho,
JSTOR Daily,
22 July 2025
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“Resourceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resourceful. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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