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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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