as in healthy
beneficial to the health of body or mind
there's nothing like the sanative value of a good night's sleep
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Adjective
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However, being taller and more muscular comes with greater evolutionary costs, as a male must eat a lot and also be physically healthy both during childhood and as an adult to achieve and maintain such traits.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025 -
The single-most important longevity hack to David Beckham’s routine that keeps him healthy and energetic at 49 Alexa Mikhail Personal Finance A woman purchased a vacant Hawaiian lot for about $22,000.—
Sunny Nagpaul,
Fortune Europe,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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These industry standards are applied to medicinal products seeking to be imported into the European Union, ensuring pharmaceutical-grade quality.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Breadfruit has been proven to have medicinal qualities (possibly addressing aspects of colon cancer and treating blood pressure), and a tea made with its leaves is said to induce sleep.—
Elaine Savory,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mancini, meanwhile, doesn’t have a high ceiling but has a good chance of developing into a legitimate upgrade compared to who the Canucks have iced on the right side of their third pair this season (Noah Juulsen/Vincent Desharnais).—
Corey Pronman,
The Athletic,
1 Feb. 2025
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Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service, beginning with positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Guests will also receive a nutrition consultation aimed at eating better to live longer, along with healthful meals packed with superfoods.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2025
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Even worse, while peeling a healthful banana was against the rules, opening a bag of potato chips was apparently fine.—
Peter C. Baker,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But melding such salutary principles with capitalism risks their being deleteriously diluted.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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The price surge had the salutary effect of easing the government’s debt burden, and the nation’s budget went into surplus for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.—
Dylan Matthews,
Vox,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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California’s salubrious climate, vigorous, entrepreneurial economy and guarantee of reproductive healthcare rights didn’t avert a population decline earlier in this decade.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
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Red cabbage is more salubrious than green cabbage due to its pigmentation, indicating the presence of anthocyanins, which are present in all plant tissues in the red to purple spectrum.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
2 Jan. 2024
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“Sanative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanative. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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