substantiveness

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Noun
  • Household incomes average $376,741, and home values average $2 million.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • The Central African country is the world’s largest producer of cobalt and controls vast stores of copper, gold, and lithium; its mining sector is estimated to hold $24 trillion of mineral value.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Both her mother and brother struggled with substance abuse, which eventually led to their deaths.
    Sarah Liese, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Watson will also have to stay away from the victim — and record a video about the harm of substance abuse and the importance of mental health treatment.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • The nonpartisan watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense has questioned both the huge amounts of money for the wall-building and whether taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • There is no public address system reminding some fans the importance of a looming third down.
    Sam McDowell Updated July 3, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
  • The importance of falling well has only grown as players have adapted movement patterns from clay and hard courts to grass.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Writing a Check Writing checks has gotten less and less common thanks to the prominence of online bill pay and the ease of paying with a card or via app (like Venmo).
    Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 30 June 2026
  • Both CrowdStrike and Palo Alto's rise to prominence has also intensified investor scrutiny, raising the bar on earnings expectations.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Her concept of gravity draws on both East and West, on karma and original sin.
    Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The probe was delayed from 2022, and headed for the asteroid Psyche, using a Mars-gravity assist and not arriving until August 2029.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Bryan West Madison Square Garden does hold personal significance for Swift.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Second lady Usha Vance mocking The New York Times for reading political significance into her Old Navy maternity dress and the New York Knicks celebrating their NBA title were featured in last week's News Quiz.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Critical infrastructure must assume persistent aerial observation as a baseline condition of operations, and operators must rehearse drone incidents with the same seriousness as cyberattacks or active shooter scenarios.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Far from being disengaged from the city’s fiscal challenges, residents demonstrated a clear understanding of the seriousness of this issue to the future of Chicago.
    Karen Freeman-Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
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“Substantiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantiveness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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