as in meritorious
deserving of high regard or great approval
you showed laudable restraint in dealing with that ridiculously demanding customer
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Recent Examples of laudable
But that laudable goal is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve, given their data centers' exploding electricity consumption.
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Michael Riordan, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2025
Assistant coach Mitch Johnson has done a laudable job as acting coach, but there is no way to know what effect the absence of Hall of Famer Popovich has had on a team that is the league’s third-youngest.
—Mike Monroe, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Works by laudable but lesser-known talents—Pia Guidetti Crippa, Giovanni Travasa, Gigi Sabadin—pepper the heady mix.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
This frame is simply too packed with huge Christmas singles for V to compete, but the growth is still laudable.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Michael Riordan, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2025
Assistant coach Mitch Johnson has done a laudable job as acting coach, but there is no way to know what effect the absence of Hall of Famer Popovich has had on a team that is the league’s third-youngest.
—Mike Monroe, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Works by laudable but lesser-known talents—Pia Guidetti Crippa, Giovanni Travasa, Gigi Sabadin—pepper the heady mix.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
This frame is simply too packed with huge Christmas singles for V to compete, but the growth is still laudable.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laudable
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Zion first responders recognized Zion recognized firefighters and police officers recently for their brave and meritorious actions in two different instances.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Air Medal is awarded to anyone who distinguishes themselves through meritorious achievement while flying.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Mar. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s goal to correct longstanding trade imbalances and bring more manufacturing back to America is a worthy one, supported by the vast majority of the country.—
Scott Whitaker,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Apr. 2025
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Yet such is the enduring interest in the subject that there is always room for another one, and the newest book by the scholar Phillips Payson O’Brien on Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler as strategists is a worthy entry.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is an admirable attempt to counter the truism that there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie — that all war movies, however gruesome or wrenching, effectively (and often unwittingly) wind up glamorizing combat to some degree.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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The football that Barcelona has been playing for a long time, especially after the change of coach, is admirable.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In a survey of more than 15,000 users after its rollout in 2024, 90% of respondents ranked their experience as excellent or above average.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Scott McKenna bossing the defence, Fabio Silva scoring goals for fun, Oli McBurnie bashing around and suddenly speaking excellent Spanish… this is a cause to believe in.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The fact that the Met is staging so many new works is fundamentally praiseworthy.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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In some quarters of our society, there seems to be an eagerness to vilify great—though humanly imperfect—historical figures who have long represented praiseworthy contributions to our nation’s success.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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Economic growth − uneven and fragile In raw numbers, Cambodia’s economic progress over the past two decades has been impressive.—
Sophal Ear,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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To win a fight with so much emotion behind it, and to have submitted a fighter as skilled on the ground as Mitchell is one of the more impressive wins of 2025.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Laudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laudable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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