as in open
willing to consider new or different ideas
needed a partner who was receptive to new ways of managing the business
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So, these folks have been, again, enormously receptive to a newcomer, to someone who’s basically said to them that the greatest asset of the DA’s office is not the courtrooms, the cases or the computers, but the prosecutors themselves.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
By timing their moves for 2025, companies like Chime, Klarna, and Stripe aim to align with a more receptive market and avoid the pitfalls that plagued earlier public offerings.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The least receptive region was Atlantic Canada, where just 7 percent said yes, while 90 percent said no.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
This slow-wave sleep likely supports memory formation by making the long-term memory storing neocortex especially receptive for short bursts of time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2024
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
By timing their moves for 2025, companies like Chime, Klarna, and Stripe aim to align with a more receptive market and avoid the pitfalls that plagued earlier public offerings.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The least receptive region was Atlantic Canada, where just 7 percent said yes, while 90 percent said no.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
This slow-wave sleep likely supports memory formation by making the long-term memory storing neocortex especially receptive for short bursts of time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Receptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/receptive. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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