highly respectable
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Signed to esteemed L.A. independent label Epitaph earlier that year, the album sold in the low-to-mid five digits in terms of copies, highly respectable for a new band.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Winants, just 60, played on a record nine Belgian Olympiad teams, typically holding down first board paired against the Kasparovs and Anands of the world and scoring a highly respectable 48% over his career.
From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2023
Scott finished T-11 at TPC Sawgrass, averaging a solid 305.5 yards off the tee and hitting a highly respectable 62.5 percent of his fairways.
From Golf Digest • May 15, 2018
In another experiment, John Bohannon of Science magazine submitted 304 versions of a fake scientific paper to open-access journals, including some associated with highly respectable publishing companies.
From Salon • May 22, 2017
We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
