salutary
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Big picture: The smaller trade deficit in January might have one salutary effect: It could help pad the increase in gross domestic product in the first quarter.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
It will have the most salutary effect in the area of medical diagnostics and devices.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
I doubt he’ll have much luck with his billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, but the overall effect of the affair should be salutary for the BBC and for journalism everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
He was like a salutary tonic; with him, she could only inhabit a higher level of goodness.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing salutary
George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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Unit 1, Whole-Class Learning
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Bartleby the Scrivener
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