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respectable

[ri-spek-tuh-buhl] / rɪˈspɛk tə bəl /




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The movie has notched a respectable 74% approval rating from critics on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

What Mr. Ahamed withholds are the strong, respectable arguments to embrace, not to shun, the boogeyman that Federal Reserve economists style “deflation” but that a layman might rather recognize as human progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Nvidia has bought back $85 billion in shares in the past two years, and this past month it increased its quarterly dividend from one penny to an almost respectable 25 cents.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

But while he finished a respectable fourth, he needed hospital treatment after fracturing a leg he had previously broken.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen




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