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Recent Examples of welfare Behavioral health, traditional healthcare, education, and even child welfare all operate in silos—leaving individuals and their caregivers to act as the glue. Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Others are concerned about food safety, animal welfare, and sustainability.1 Outbreaks like the recent bird flu can also lead to egg shortages. Merve Ceylan, Health, 26 Mar. 2025 Despite all of the attention on why people should eat less meat—climate change, health, animal welfare—Americans have kept consuming more and more of it. Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025 The Alaska Department of Public Safety State Troopers division said in a news release that 38-year-old Lillian Johnson was arrested on a first-degree charge of endangering the welfare of a child. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for welfare
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Noun
  • Besides real estate, the family’s Sinar Mas group has interests in mining, paper mills, financial services, telecommunications, and agribusiness.
    Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Prospective clients can register their interest via an application form on the Case Study: Adapt website, casestudyadapt.org.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Historically, child labor laws have been implemented to protect young workers from unsafe conditions and excessive hours, ensuring their education and well-being are not compromised.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Whether attending a festival or a private gathering, individuals should prioritize their well-being and that of those around them.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The pool is part of a health and leisure club located in the stand.
    Tom Burrows, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In January, Row shared an update on her health with her followers on her private Instagram account.
    Ashley Hume, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • So that was a very conscious call, along with the choice of basing it in a particular weather, which is monsoon, because the characters don’t really have any happiness or sunshine in their life.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025
  • To no longer be complicit in surrendering her life to the sport at the expense of her happiness.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The rapid move away from fossil fuels and nuclear partly led to an increase in energy prices, which then impacted their competitiveness as an exporter of goods, especially from energy-intensive industries like automotive manufacturing.
    Greg Robinson, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The new tariffs Trump imposed on Chinese goods have already weighed on the country’s export growth.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • All of this was done not to make cuts for the sake of cutting (like DOGE's bull-in-a-china-shop undertaking), but to substantially improve government's performance.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • For the sake of rinsing themselves of the issue long-term, the Dodgers will exercise caution.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the value (and advisability) of such a potent check depends on the quality of the state actors involved, and in the United States, agency officials are highly trained, relatively diverse, and demonstrably devoted to the public weal.
    Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • When economic distress reaches a certain point, the individual citizen no longer uses his political power to serve the public weal, but only to help himself.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Noun
  • As a business owner, fostering an environment that promotes positivity, whether through workplace culture, networking, or personal mindset, can directly impact financial decision-making and success.
    Shane Enete, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Its small Falcon 1 rocket failed three times before tasting success.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Welfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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