Reputable
adjective
Known for being good and trustworthy in nature or quality.
She decided to invest her savings into a reputable company to ensure the security of her investment.

Often appears as...
- reputable source
- reputable company
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Approving
adjective
Known for being good and trustworthy in nature or quality.
She decided to invest her savings into a reputable company to ensure the security of her investment.

Often appears as...
- reputable source
- reputable company
Usage tips
Approving
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Positive Implication
Using 'reputable' implies a positive opinion about someone's character or a company's business practices.

He only does business with reputable suppliers.
Quality Assurance
'Reputable' suggests that something or someone has a consistent history of being high in quality.

She graduated from a reputable university.
Not Newcomers
Often implies that the entity has been established for a period of time, not being new in the field.

Our equipment comes from a reputable manufacturer with 30 years in the industry.
Positive Implication
Using 'reputable' implies a positive opinion about someone's character or a company's business practices.

He only does business with reputable suppliers.
Quality Assurance
'Reputable' suggests that something or someone has a consistent history of being high in quality.

She graduated from a reputable university.
Not Newcomers
Often implies that the entity has been established for a period of time, not being new in the field.

Our equipment comes from a reputable manufacturer with 30 years in the industry.
Positive Implication
Using 'reputable' implies a positive opinion about someone's character or a company's business practices.

He only does business with reputable suppliers.
Quality Assurance
'Reputable' suggests that something or someone has a consistent history of being high in quality.

She graduated from a reputable university.
Not Newcomers
Often implies that the entity has been established for a period of time, not being new in the field.

Our equipment comes from a reputable manufacturer with 30 years in the industry.
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it. So this neutrality policy is really important for us because it empowers a community that is very diverse to come together and actually get some work done. So we have very diverse contributors in terms of political, religious, cultural backgrounds.
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The dark side of...
from a different perspective and maybe taking the stuff and sold it week she could have sent some money now I know money is impersonal and I know that you know there are there are questions about cash and and in folks using cash and how it's used find yourself a good reputable
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Where is cybercrime...
if you're not successful. Now, these environments, these marketplaces -- they look like an Amazon or an eBay. You see products, prices, ratings and reviews. Of course, if you're going to buy an attack, you're going to buy from a reputable criminal with good ratings, right?
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
And by the way, why do these hotels focus on the ostensible supply rather than the demand for sex workers? In Lagos I cannot go alone into many "reputable" bars and clubs. They just don't let you in if you're a woman alone, you have to be accompanied by a man.
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How false news can...
with some infections proving fatal. In a slightly less dire example, satirical articles that are formatted to resemble real ones can also be picked up by outlets not in on the joke. For example, a joke article in the reputable British Medical Journal entitled
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Museums should honor the...
Respectability politics and idealized femininity influence how we display women and which women we choose to display. And that display has skewed toward successful and extraordinary and reputable and desirable, which maintains the systemic exclusion
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You may be accidentally...
Finally, there is also reputation risk to consider for individuals and organizations that continue to maintain an affiliation with the tobacco industry. In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
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Humanity's Search for...
was repressing his childhood love of astronomy and beginning his legal studies to fulfill his dying father's demand for an ordinary, reputable life. When his father died, Edwin Hubble turned that passion for the stars into formal study
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The Trouble with...
they just seem to disappear more after this when tiger owners realize they can't keep their animals anymore there are some safe and reputable places that can give them a home our senior editor eli chen went to one
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Peter Donnelly: How...
So after Sally Clark was convicted -- you can imagine, it made rather a splash in the press -- one of the journalists from one of Britain's more reputable newspapers wrote that what the expert had said was,
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it. So this neutrality policy is really important for us because it empowers a community that is very diverse to come together and actually get some work done. So we have very diverse contributors in terms of political, religious, cultural backgrounds.
Video examples
The dark side of...
from a different perspective and maybe taking the stuff and sold it week she could have sent some money now I know money is impersonal and I know that you know there are there are questions about cash and and in folks using cash and how it's used find yourself a good reputable
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Where is cybercrime...
if you're not successful. Now, these environments, these marketplaces -- they look like an Amazon or an eBay. You see products, prices, ratings and reviews. Of course, if you're going to buy an attack, you're going to buy from a reputable criminal with good ratings, right?
Video examples
Chimamanda Ngozi...
And by the way, why do these hotels focus on the ostensible supply rather than the demand for sex workers? In Lagos I cannot go alone into many "reputable" bars and clubs. They just don't let you in if you're a woman alone, you have to be accompanied by a man.
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How false news can...
with some infections proving fatal. In a slightly less dire example, satirical articles that are formatted to resemble real ones can also be picked up by outlets not in on the joke. For example, a joke article in the reputable British Medical Journal entitled
Video examples
Museums should honor the...
Respectability politics and idealized femininity influence how we display women and which women we choose to display. And that display has skewed toward successful and extraordinary and reputable and desirable, which maintains the systemic exclusion
Video examples
You may be accidentally...
Finally, there is also reputation risk to consider for individuals and organizations that continue to maintain an affiliation with the tobacco industry. In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
Video examples
Humanity's Search for...
was repressing his childhood love of astronomy and beginning his legal studies to fulfill his dying father's demand for an ordinary, reputable life. When his father died, Edwin Hubble turned that passion for the stars into formal study
Video examples
The Trouble with...
they just seem to disappear more after this when tiger owners realize they can't keep their animals anymore there are some safe and reputable places that can give them a home our senior editor eli chen went to one
Video examples
Peter Donnelly: How...
So after Sally Clark was convicted -- you can imagine, it made rather a splash in the press -- one of the journalists from one of Britain's more reputable newspapers wrote that what the expert had said was,
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Michael Specter
American Journalist
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

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William Gibson
American Writer
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

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Bayley
American Athlete
It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

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Douglas Hurd
British Politician
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

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Alan Moore
British Writer
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

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Dan Schneider
I couldn't, and I wouldn't have the long-term friendships and continued loyalty from so many reputable people if I'd mistreated my actors of any age, especially minors.

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Gayle Lynds
American Author
Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

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Robert Lanza
American Scientist
I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

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Seth Meyers
American Comedian
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

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Ward Churchill
American Educator
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

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Michael Specter
American Journalist
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

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William Gibson
American Writer
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

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Bayley
American Athlete
It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

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Douglas Hurd
British Politician
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

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Alan Moore
British Writer
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

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Dan Schneider
I couldn't, and I wouldn't have the long-term friendships and continued loyalty from so many reputable people if I'd mistreated my actors of any age, especially minors.

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Gayle Lynds
American Author
Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

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Robert Lanza
American Scientist
I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

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Seth Meyers
American Comedian
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

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Ward Churchill
American Educator
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

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