sensible
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I should point out that many ordinary British people spoke to my wife, me and our countrymen in sensible and kindly terms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
There is also a fine line between sensible budgeting and sacrifice.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
I like the way new manager Matthias Jaissle has set them up to hit teams on the counter-attack, and Nico Gonzalez looks like a sensible signing too.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
This would help swish money into public coffers through tax revenues, he said, "allowing us to provide tax relief on the one hand while finally making sensible investments on the other".
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
I’d had so many careful, sensible conversations at this point, with so many people, about how to extract myself from a career in which, by all outward measures, I was flourishing.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing sensible
Positive Adjectives to Describe People
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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