substantiveness

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Noun
  • Winger and Dawkins arrived in 2023, and one of the underlying principles of their plan was, and remains, to correctly evaluate their own players and make those evaluations before their players lost their trade value.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • The answer increasingly lies not in export volume alone, but in supply chain integration, local collaboration, sustainability standards and long-term strategic value.
    Li Jun, Footwear News, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Keefer has emphasized student achievement and school safety, pointing to his support for programs focused on bullying prevention, suicide prevention and substance-use prevention as a Trustee.
    Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • Prior to the second arrest, a New Orleans judge ordered LaBeouf to begin substance abuse treatment and undergo weekly drug testing.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The list, which is broken down by net worth, age, industry, and state, includes names like Taylor Swift, Sheryl Sandberg and more.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan said Broadcom will sell $56 billion worth of AI chips in the fiscal year that ends in October, also falling short of estimates.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Charlotte Mather-Taylor, the director of the Area Agency on Aging of Broward County, echoed the sentiment on the importance of mental activity.
    Lauren Pastrana, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Finally, in the Oaxacan field test, the team showed that predatory wasps use the airborne distress signals to find their prey, but the relative importance of direct leaf defenses versus this indirect wasp recruitment isn’t clear.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Its prominence should fade with time, leaving Wilson's decade-long tenure in Seattle as his most important body of work.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The second, filmed on May 31, 2026, reveals a 'Godzilla'-like prominence looming above the solar surface.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • Gravitational waves were first proposed in 1915 as part of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, known as general relativity.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • But neither have the gravitas or gravity of Garrett, one of the few in the NFL who compare to former Ram Aaron Donald in terms of how much his presence will suck up the time of opposing offensive coordinators as they game plan.
    Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • So using these as natural barriers obviously has an enormous significance — enormous importance.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026
  • For now, however, his focus is on preparing himself and his teammates for the country’s first FIFA World Cup match since Haiti played in 1974, and Miami carries a special significance along that goal.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • The work to preserve our government requires secrecy and seriousness.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 31 May 2026
  • How ‘Clean Slate’ laws work States have a legal process in which people can petition the courts to seal or expunge old arrests or convictions, depending on the seriousness of the offense and after a certain period of time.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
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“Substantiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantiveness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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