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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Resilience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
resilience .
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- noun
resilience
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
- noun an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
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Examples
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The 10 hour course on resiliency is taught by "Master Trainers" who themselves are soldiers who have had 10 days of training to become skilled enough to encourage resiliency and strength, and to prevent suicide in their charges.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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And finally -- what if these greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies worked in tandem with successful economic development of emerging economies, and to the long-term resiliency of communities?
Roger Platt: From Cancún Compromises to Concrete Action: We Don't Need a Binding Deal to Act Now on Efficiency Roger Platt 2011
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The 10 hour course on resiliency is taught by "Master Trainers" who themselves are soldiers who have had 10 days of training to become skilled enough to encourage resiliency and strength, and to prevent suicide in their charges.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The 10 hour course on resiliency is taught by "Master Trainers" who themselves are soldiers who have had 10 days of training to become skilled enough to encourage resiliency and strength, and to prevent suicide in their charges.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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And finally -- what if these greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies worked in tandem with successful economic development of emerging economies, and to the long-term resiliency of communities?
Roger Platt: From Cancún Compromises to Concrete Action: We Don't Need a Binding Deal to Act Now on Efficiency Roger Platt 2011
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The 10 hour course on resiliency is taught by "Master Trainers" who themselves are soldiers who have had 10 days of training to become skilled enough to encourage resiliency and strength, and to prevent suicide in their charges.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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I believe resiliency is the key to success and survival.
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I believe resiliency is the key to success and survival.
January 2007 2007
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In the second half, we'll be down and the resiliency is starting to be there.
USATODAY.com 2003
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Because of this independence of each other, and to some extent of the national economic and political winds that may be blowing at the moment, an extractive economy has a certain resiliency, a resistance to external influences and a toughness that may be far less evident in an industrial one.
Canada's To-day 1954
Kristianto2010 commented on the word resiliency
Over the years, I have been amazed at the resiliency ketabahan, daya pegas of Angie’s parents. Recently I asked them, “How have you managed to get through this experience?” ODB July 26, 2011.
July 26, 2011