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

The overall message to our adversaries is salutary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

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

A plain brown bottle with a plain brown label, both stylish and salutary.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie