initiative

In a sentence

Six example sentences with initiative, each labelled with its topic.

• The apprentice showed initiative, redesigning the delivery route unasked and cutting an hour from every Friday run.

  Business

• Explorers of that generation are remembered for initiative rather than skill; several set out with maps that stopped halfway.

  History

• Guild leaders reward initiative, so the player who organised a rescue run without being asked got the first raid slot.

  Gaming

• The intern showed initiative by building a customer dashboard nobody had asked for, and the founders shipped it a week later.

  Startups

• The coach praised the rookie's initiative in calling a timeout himself when the veterans froze under the full-court press.

  Basketball

• The postdoc's initiative in testing the failed samples on a different instrument turned a dead project into a paper.

  Science

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More Academic words

• output
• discriminate
• detected
• assumption
• varied
• circumstance
• statistic
• potentially
• finances
• publication
• transmitting
• adjustment