enterprising
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Privately held Driscoll’s, which traces its roots to two enterprising strawberry growers in early 1900s California, became America’s biggest berry producer by working with hundreds of independent growers nationwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s a niche manufacturing business that caters to enterprising chefs and restaurateurs who are testing a concept or hitting the road for music festivals, farmers markets or a meal break at offices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Are our moneyed men less enlightened to their own interest, or less enterprising in the pursuit?,” the future Treasury secretary wrote External link in 1780.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is symbolic of your enterprising younger self, and all of those fancy cars and five-star vacations that you passed up on, perhaps using that money as a down payment on your next property instead.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Imogene was all the things I said she was, and more, and they were good things to be—depending on who it was doing the inventing or the creating or the enterprising.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Vocabulary lists containing enterprising
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