respectable
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It also praised the "plucky" display by the US, "who people thought had come to Rome as whipping boys but in fact have gone off the pitch with a very respectable score".
From BBC • Jun. 6, 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
There were too many “nice” films: perfectly respectable but not what I want Cannes to be.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The Muslims seized upon the atomists’ ideas; after all, now that zero was around, the void was again a respectable idea.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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