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Recent Examples of meaningfulness
Targets who were unable to clarify why they were being neglected felt greater threats to belonging, self-esteem and meaningfulness.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningfulness
Noun
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The film’s considerable power depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented—in a series of swift, kinetically composed, and jaggedly edited scenes—seldom feel like choices at all.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.—
Jim Shepard,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
Noun
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How to spot a political agenda dressed up as factual information, or how Big Tech makes money from playing with their emotions.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tools for empathic communication—the scripts and rehearsed responses to intense emotion—ought to be taught in medicine.—
Rachel Pearson,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Politically motivated uses of force are a categorical assault on individual rights and on the American method of persuasion over force.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yet the effect on credible persuasion of other Americans is statistically limited.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their warmth, textural contrast, and savory nuttiness adds depth and complexity that can make mixes that usually tend to fall flat more flavorful.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
20 Sep. 2025
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Grammy-winning opera star Joyce DiDonato joins the Minnesota Orchestra for its opening weekend of performances, sharing her magnificent vocal span, warmth and agility in a performance of Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été (Summer Nights).—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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Fire isn’t necessarily bad The giant trees rely on low-intensity fire to help open their cones to disperse seeds.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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Kershaw’s competitive spirit reaches entirely new levels of intensity as his demeanor is fueled by a disdain for losing.—
Wayne G. McDonnell,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Meaningfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningfulness. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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