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adjective

resilient

CEFR C1

able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions

In a sentence

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

  • Children with one steady adult nearby tend to be more resilient after a move, a loss, or a hard year.

    Psychology

  • The company proved resilient after losing its biggest client, cutting costs in a week and signing four smaller accounts by June.

    Startups

  • The graft proved surprisingly resilient, holding through two infections and a fall before the surgeon finally called the recovery complete.

    Medicine

  • Mangroves are resilient, bending under storm surges and standing up again once the water drains back out.

    Environment

  • The town's economy proved resilient after the mill closed, with small workshops absorbing most of the laid-off hands.

    Economics

  • The network is resilient by design: if one data center fails, traffic reroutes to another within seconds.

    Technology

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