respectable
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Much of respectable academic and policy opinion was firmly behind Team Merkel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sullivan’s rise is inevitably compared to that of Freddy Adu, an even-more-hyped American wunderkind who broke into the sport in his early teens and struggled before settling into a respectable if itinerant professional career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
That’s very hard to do if someone from the respectable, outside world is watching.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The zucchini disappeared almost immediately, leaving behind only a few green flecks and the vague knowledge that somewhere beneath all that chocolate was a respectable amount of produce.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
There has been little written on the end of alchemy, yet an activity which was respectable in the eyes of Boyle and Newton had become entirely disreputable by the 1720s.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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