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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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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Also, the individual soldiers were given little initiative.† (source)
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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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There were several attempts to snatch at them, but it was the mayor's wife who took the 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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The project would eventually be named the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).† (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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Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.† (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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They wanted people who would act on their own initiative.† (source)
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The really remarkable thing, and Rambert was greatly struck by this, was the way in which, in the very midst of catastrophe, offices could go on functioning serenely and take initiatives of no immediate relevance, and often unknown to the highest authority, purely and simply because they had been created originally for this purpose.† (source)
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