enterprising
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Across universities, some enterprising parents have set up the sort of WhatsApp group chats you'd more typically find being used when children are at school.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
The oil curse will lay less heavily on its people, as it already has its neighbors—oil-rich governments once typically didn’t need to care whether their subjects were enterprising, productive and educated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
If some enterprising journalist wants to test the low-wage way of life in darkest Idaho or Louisiana, more power to her.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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