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a sportive pastor who began every sermon with a joke
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While English accents add an element of charm, the Boxing Day coda seems an odd way to wrap things, at least for those who know nothing of such sportive traditions.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
On Sunday, as Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev competed for the men’s championship (with Djokovic prevailing in the end), another crew was present to take in the sportive scene.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
In 2018, Brooke Eby, a sportive goofball with strawberry-blond hair, started to feel as though her left foot couldn’t keep up.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
That was true even in extremely endangered ones such as the northern sportive lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis) of which only 40 are known to exist, all within 12 square kilometers of Madagascar.
—Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 June 2023
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
On Sunday, as Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev competed for the men’s championship (with Djokovic prevailing in the end), another crew was present to take in the sportive scene.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
In 2018, Brooke Eby, a sportive goofball with strawberry-blond hair, started to feel as though her left foot couldn’t keep up.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
That was true even in extremely endangered ones such as the northern sportive lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis) of which only 40 are known to exist, all within 12 square kilometers of Madagascar.
—Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 June 2023
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“Sportive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportive. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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sportive
adjective
sport·ive
ˈspōrt-iv 
ˈspȯrt-
sportively
adverb
sportiveness
noun
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