as in healthy
beneficial to the health of body or mind
there's nothing like the sanative value of a good night's sleep
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Adjective
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However, being taller and more muscular comes with greater evolutionary costs, as a male must eat a lot and also be physically healthy both during childhood and as an adult to achieve and maintain such traits.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025 -
He’s missed some time with injury, but he’s also been a healthy scratch a few times this season.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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These industry standards are applied to medicinal products seeking to be imported into the European Union, ensuring pharmaceutical-grade quality.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Breadfruit has been proven to have medicinal qualities (possibly addressing aspects of colon cancer and treating blood pressure), and a tea made with its leaves is said to induce sleep.—
Elaine Savory,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The hotel whose setting and décor is the next best thing to visiting Austria is also full of the real family’s history.—
Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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Posada de las Flores also houses one of the town's best restaurants in its plaza-facing dining room with al fresco seating.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Guests will also receive a nutrition consultation aimed at eating better to live longer, along with healthful meals packed with superfoods.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2025
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Even worse, while peeling a healthful banana was against the rules, opening a bag of potato chips was apparently fine.—
Peter C. Baker,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But melding such salutary principles with capitalism risks their being deleteriously diluted.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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The price surge had the salutary effect of easing the government’s debt burden, and the nation’s budget went into surplus for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.—
Dylan Matthews,
Vox,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Red cabbage is more salubrious than green cabbage due to its pigmentation, indicating the presence of anthocyanins, which are present in all plant tissues in the red to purple spectrum.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
2 Jan. 2024
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Overall, however, short-term economic indicators seem to offer a salubrious outlook for company stock performance.—
Bruce Brumberg,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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“Sanative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanative. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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