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heartening

ADJECTIVE
encouraging
Synonyms


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They’ve also led him to the heartening and hard-won conclusion that we control how we respond to our emotions: “Reject nothing. Receive everything. See what you learn.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

To the audience, it’s a heartening buddy dramedy about two boys choosing to forge a brighter path and quickly realizing they make each other better people.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Also heartening to Wall Street, Southwest’s outlook for the current quarter included impacts from the severe winter storm that swept the U.S. over the weekend.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

At the corner of Lake and Mariposa in Altadena, two restaurants — Betsy and Miya — are heartening signs of life just a few hundred feet apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

Sometimes it was a heartening run dead north.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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