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resilience

Definition for resilience

noun as in elasticity

Strongest match

flexibility

Strong matches

pliancy, recoil, snap

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Example Sentences

The focus of this work is extreme adversity, such as being orphaned, rather than everyday challenges, which might teach beneficial resilience.

Now the pandemic has delivered a wake-up call that some are stretched too thin—and it’s time to build more safeguards and resilience into the system.

From Fortune

Growing research suggests that some adversity — such as dealing with a bad grade or a challenging friendship — can help a child build resilience.

In one 2010 study, researchers wanted to understand how pain and stress affect resilience.

The app is designed to help users regulate their heart rhythms and mental well-being to achieve a state of “coherence,” characterized by reduced stress, increased resilience, and better overall emotional health.

From Fortune

Throughout the next year, the city changed but it's resilience never did.

They each have a unique struggle and their own reserves of resilience and humor.

I am awed by the resilience of these people whose sexual identities are literally a matter of life and death.

The Resilience Project will mail kits to individuals who sign up to participate.

This summer, the Resilience Project will begin accepting DNA samples from individuals around the world.

She walked, as always, with the elastic resilience of unfettered youth.

Whole chapters could supply no clearer tribute to his resilience and entire adequacy.

The German temperament has not the initiative, the resilience, which are the prime conditions of a successful revolution.

A general elasticity of structure, a suggestion of sinews and physical resilience characterizes this type.

The hour of sleep had been enough to restore her resilience.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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