enterprising
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It is symbolic of your enterprising younger self, and all of those fancy cars and five-star vacations that you passed up on, perhaps using that money as a down payment on your next property instead.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
And they must seem intelligent without actually being enterprising enough to stand out from the crowd of near-identical films.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
For enterprising men, money from war, industry or trade was a passport through social frontiers—the tradesman, merchant or lucky naval captain could become a landed gentleman, as happens in Austen’s novels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Mr. Lew knew everything about the pieces, but he wasn’t the most enterprising salesman.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing enterprising
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