worthwhile
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Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has defended the spending as a worthwhile investment in shareholders’ best interests, despite once quipping that investors should short the stock of any company building a fancy new headquarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Revamping content strategy is not enough to fix this challenge but it is a worthwhile start.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Some have funded worthwhile projects. Some have brought genuine benefits. But, taken together, they have made the landscape more complicated, more fragmented and more difficult to navigate."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
"We think that it could really be worthwhile to look at the physiology of crayfish to see if something there is influencing their body size."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Now, get on with you. A boy your age should be doing something worthwhile, ’stead of playing mumbly peg with sticks.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing worthwhile
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"The Ugly One," Vocabulary from Chapters 21-25
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