productive
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Labor-intensive services grow more expensive not because something went wrong, but because everything else became more productive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
That’s why these investments are so important, and of course, a big effort on the government’s part to open new markets and help make local economies productive and sustainable.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
"Crucially, these new quantum algorithms can enable the development of new quantum materials to build new paradigms of quantum computers, creating a productive two-way feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computers," he explains.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
So, they really are productive conversations through that lens.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
After corn’s arrival in the eastern United States, seven centuries more passed before the development of a corn variety productive in North American climates triggered the Mississippian emergence.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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