appropriate

Example Sentences

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This impaired their ability to send information about appropriate defensive responses to other parts of the brain.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

“Also, if there is no clinical data for a substance, and an awareness that the substance has the propensity for harm, that could make it an appropriate placement on the Category 2 list.”

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

One minister told the BBC that any wrongdoing should be dealt with by the appropriate authorities.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The Labor Department is clear that these assets are appropriate when they are professionally managed—in target-date funds, managed accounts and similar vehicles that have fiduciaries in charge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë