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How to use the word additive in a Sentence?

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Erythritol looks like sugar, it tastes like sugar and you can bake with it, it’s become the sweetheart of the food industry, an extremely popular additive to keto and other low-carb products and foods marketed to people with diabetes.

Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has an additive benefit that shouldn't be discounted or looked down upon because an academic study says this won't reduce crime by' x' percentage points, but we know for an absolute fact that guns are used in suicides, in homicides, and of course shootings. Those things, taking that weapon out of a place it's unwanted and unused, giving people a responsible method for disposing of it, have a benefit.

Glen Brooks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The industry is using technology and innovation to basically handle this disruption with regards to the labor shortage. A lot of use of drones, robotics, and additive manufacturing, that though, creates new career opportunities in those innovation and technology spaces. And that's very attractive to the younger generation.

Michael Bellman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I went to the President and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get Inspector General Linick to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing, the kinds of activities he's supposed to undertake to make us better, to improve us.

Secretary Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I went to the president and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing.

Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I went to the president and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department.

Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Early on, Bobby and Jordan Horowitz (another of the film’s producers) bonded over the idea of using practical effects, nobody has anything against CGI as an additive. I think we all see the benefit of digital effects. But I think audiences have missed seeing these puppets, I think they miss seeing the sweat and the fingerprints. We used CGI as a sweetener, very, very subtly, in expressions in the eyes and things of that nature. Otherwise, we had real puppeteers there, whether they were under the table with their hand in the puppet or whether they were within the puppet, as the creatures grow bigger. It was a blast; it was really fun. Oddly, when you spend 12 hours a day with these puppets, they become little personalities. They just feel like fellow castmates, as absurd as that sounds.

Johnny Galecki

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Rate strategies in both the U.S. and the eurozone (mainly the periphery) added to performance. Holdings of TIPS were also additive, as were the fund's non-agency MBS positions, credit strategies including positions in financials, municipals and dollar-denominated EM debt, all benefited performance.

The Pimco Total Return Fund

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I would bet a paycheck that it's going to be a number greater than 308 ships, just by virtue of the additive nature of the complexity and the contestants that are confronting us right now.

Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I will absolutely continue to look at M&A stuff but not as a requirement - as something that could be additive as part of our longer term strategy.

Chairman Robert Coury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Curran is a material that is derived from nanocellulose particles - root vegetables, now when you get down to that very, very small size you actually get incredible strength properties. So when we put the resulting product that we have into other products, as an additive that goes into other products, it actually adds strength to those products, as well as adding viscosity, and there is no other product that will do both things at the same time.

Christian Kemp-Griffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are all kinds of potential applications that Curran can be used for, it can go into things like paint and coatings, it can go into concrete, cosmetics. It can even be used for drilling fluids, as an additive to go into your food, and go into composites. So you can imagine one day airplane wings made from Curran.

Christian Kemp-Griffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The (alloy) powders need to be improved upon, they need to be cost effective, and they need to work better in the additive printing process, what's new now is the machines are getting better, faster and cheaper. Alcoa is stepping into the process so we can get the performance and the cost to where they need to be.

Ray Kilmer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

[Oil] this low should be very additive to economic activity, not just with gas prices but across the economy, early holiday shopping numbers should come in pretty strong.

Tony Roth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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