resourcefulness
Example Sentences
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“This all goes back to the resourcefulness that I learned when I was young,” Caballero says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
William Golding wrote his tale partially in response to “The Coral Island,” a Victorian-era potboiler about three boys who survive a shipwreck thanks to their bluff resourcefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
Yet the bigger lesson of “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” is about resourcefulness and freewheeling imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
It was a life that encouraged resourcefulness and resiliency.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
Showing a natural resourcefulness, he had little money but got himself hired as an au pair, or domestic assistant, to a Franco-American family.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
