as in aggressive
attentive to and ready to act on opportunities for personal gain or advancement
The opportunistic salesperson was always on the lookout for potential new customers.
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Recent Examples of opportunistic
Further, Sorbara highlighted that Chord Energy reaffirmed its capital returns framework, targeting to return more than 75% of its free cash flow to shareholders through dividends and opportunistic share repurchases.
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Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 18 May 2025
He’s also meant to invoke law-and-order blowhards like Arizona’s Joe Arpaio and any number of current opportunistic parasites keen to ride the red-pill wave; that Phoenix juggles all of this and still makes the character feel organically wounded is a testament to his talent.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
While their current relationship may seem opportunistic, Trump and Combs do share a decades-long history.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 May 2025
But in the past 18 months, permissive NCAA eligibility rulings, opportunistic agents and rising pools of name, image and likeness money have combined to open the floodgates.
—Cj Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Addressing the Obvious Critiques Yes, 3–4% real growth is aggressive.—
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After the aggressive animal showed no signs of leaving, the woman’s boyfriend fatally shot it, officials said.—
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Most of us who are mindful of the sun are likely diligent about our SPF application — and reapplication — on areas like our noses and the tops of our ears.—
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Now, perhaps more than ever, investors need to be diligent in an increasingly speculative market.—
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And this year, for the first time, the city offered aspiring lifeguards the opportunity to practice for the test with a swim instructor before trying out.—
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The two aspiring entrepreneurs hit the ground running on their venture.—
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In one memorable scene, the industrious little girl wanders out of a laundromat while Lu is off looking for more dough, finding her way into an open house for a multimillion dollar brownstone nearby.—
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Together with ticks, these industrious rodents help spread a disease that affects hundreds of thousands every year.—
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While some enterprising users are already 3D printing solutions to this problem, Nintendo or some smart accessory maker should make a more official mouse holster to support this unique control scheme.—
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Their hope is pinned on the idea that an enterprising AI developer will miraculously see beyond the bounds of existing AI and derive a groundbreaking new approach that no one has yet even imagined.—
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However, Sanders provides an additional dynamic weapon for QB Bryce Young to target in the passing game.—
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Preview footage for the update shows the game running above 1080p, up from a dynamic 1080p on Switch 1, at a locked 60fps, more than double what was possible with the game on the Switch.—
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“Opportunistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunistic. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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