Sample Sentences forinitiative (editor-reviewed)
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She is smart, dedicated and has initiative. I expect to see her promoted soon.initiative = willingness to act independently
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He did it on his own initiative. His boss didn't even know about it.initiative = having started a task without instruction
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Once the advance was stalled, we lost the initiative.initiative = ability to control events
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The CEO introduced a new initiative to improve customer satisfaction.initiative = new plan or effort
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The ballot initiative would limit real growth in state expenditures to growth in population.initiative = proposal
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She showed great initiative by organizing the project without being asked.initiative = self-starting drive
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I admire her initiative.initiative = willingness to act independently
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For the second week in a row, I leave out Hilly's bathroom initiative. (source)initiative = proposal or thing started
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Come on, Jacqueline, show some initiative . (source)initiative = determining what should be done and doing it without instruction
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Mr. Nielsen is a member of the chamber of commerce, and conversations often include discussion of initiatives and plans for stimulating business in this "unruly" economy, as he calls it.† (source)
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Also, the individual soldiers were given little initiative.† (source)
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Within Paradice, said Crake — and they'd visit the facility after lunch — there were two major initiatives going forward.† (source)
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There were several attempts to snatch at them, but it was the mayor's wife who took the initiative.† (source)
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I answered all his questions about the job, and attached, as requested, a copy of the school recycling initiatives he'd implemented, which he wanted to show someone he'd met at camp.† (source)
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The project would eventually be named the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).† (source)
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So around they swirled for hours-she, searching for emotions in him that she had long feared were absent, looking for something, anything, that might have bonded them together around the idea of a child; he, blunting her initiatives, seemingly telling her everything but the truth.† (source)
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Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.† (source)
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These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives.† (source)
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