salutary
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Big picture: The smaller trade deficit in January might have one salutary effect: It could help pad the increase in gross domestic product in the first quarter.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
One salutary side effect may be to encourage hospitals to improve patient care at lower cost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
It will have the most salutary effect in the area of medical diagnostics and devices.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
Finally, the Espionage Act is a strict liability law, meaning that a defendant’s intentions — whether salutary, malevolent, purely selfish or some combination thereof — are entirely irrelevant.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2024
Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing salutary
George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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Unit 1, Whole-Class Learning
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Bartleby the Scrivener
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