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Additionally, the acceleration of cross-buying by existing SoFi members has created a virtuous cycle of compounding growth, diversified revenue and high profitability.

From Fortune

Bing struggled to get this virtuous cycle started, and never really got to the scale that Google enjoys with its search offering.

“We have gone from the most affected country to one of the virtuous countries in the management of the pandemic thanks to the clarity of the rules from the very beginning, and the willingness of everyone to respect them,” Lorini says.

From Ozy

It’s both beloved and iconic, and Mulan, who is as virtuous as she is strong and brave, is an essential heroine.

From Vox

As a political party ward leader, she was not daunted on her virtuous missions, which, to me, seemed to be defined by failing candidates or losing causes.

From Fortune

In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

A May 2014 Slate article by Sam Kean details the tragic changes he suffered “from a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter.”

Some look at the Aspen museum and wonder whether Ban will be able to continue creating his humanitarian “virtuous” architecture.

At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.

Guy-guitar-genius music isn't inherently evil; mass-produced pop isn't inherently virtuous.

She was also supposed to be the original or model of “the Virtuous Woman” therein portrayed!

The virtuous statesman advanced to meet him, while his countenance proclaimed that he knew all, and sympathized with its victim.

Both of these readings appeal to the Solomonic portrait of the virtuous woman, in Proverbs xxxi.

A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."

For twenty years you hold an innocent and virtuous woman under an infamous suspicion.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to virtuous, such as: honest, honorable, noble, principled, righteous, and wholesome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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