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How to use the word indicative in a Sentence?

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Changes in these metabolic markers can be indicative of a number of different health outcomes in the future for the children, such as an increased susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance, increased risk for fatty liver disease and potentially cancer.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows, the statue fails to depict how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. At the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, it ‘showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.’.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

How are we still approaching $ 17,000 ? That says something. It's indicative that people are still using cryptos and trying to safeguard assets. Trust hasn't been shaken to the core.

Hany Rashwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The jobs report was robust and indicative of strong demand.

Joe Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like to publicly apologize to Chris Rock, Chris Rock, i was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.

Pinkett Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

Danielle Atkinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Obviously, there are always things you can improve on, there are always things you can do a little bit better, but overall, I'm very happy, but the competition's not one program. Whatever happens in the short program is not indicative of what will happen in the free program.

Nathan Chen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What I think we can say is that is indicative of the perhaps more confrontational nature of police-public encounters with people of color, people of color experience policing differently than majorities ... that speaks to maybe an unequal protection.

Ken Novak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The timing and content of these messages are indicative of Mr. Laundrie attempting to deceive law enforcement by giving the impression that Ms. Petito was still alive.

The FBI

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While our investigation was spurred by the egregious treatment against Lt. Nazario that we all saw in bodycam footage, we discovered that this incident was indicative of much larger problems within the department.

Mark Herring

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That is indicative of what we’ve been talking about for a very, very long time, which is how a cash bail system utterly fails us.

Larry Krasner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The insensitive remarks made by Jon Gruden about DeMaurice Smith are indicative of the racism that exists on many levels of professional sports, furthermore, it reveals that the journey for African Americans and other minorities in sports is riddled with irrepressible mindsets at the highest level. It is our hope that the league and team ownership will address this matter with a remedy commensurate with these painful words. This is yet another inflection point in a society fraught with cynical social blinders, absent of respect for the intellectual capacity and leadership of minorities. When will it end?

Rod Graves

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You need energetic flood conditions to carry rocks that big and heavy, it's a special thing that may be indicative of a fundamental change in the local hydrology or perhaps the regional climate on Mars.

Benjamin Weiss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It matters when somebody steps into the street that they have a safe crosswalk, it matters that our design criteria is indicative of more than just an individual motor vehicle.

Keith Benjamin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Yes there is rising inflation but the market is focusing more on the positives of improving earnings, robust GDP growth and the wider economy getting stronger, today’s action is indicative that the Fed hasn’t said anything that the market didn’t already know.

Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Affordable Care Act's also indicative of what will continue to happen, which is lawsuits filed against specific provisions of the law or likely specific administrative decisions or rules.

Tim Jost

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I really believe that if Liz Cheney had not seen the whole party moving, Liz Cheney would not have moved either. And that, to me, is indicative of the problem we have in Congress that people are waiting until they feel they're safe. I think Liz Cheney thought Liz Cheney was safe. Liz Cheney moved. Now Liz Cheney's got no choice, Liz Cheney can't backtrack.

Justin Amash

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This case is indicative of how systemic and pervasive the sexual abuse of children was, and remains to this day, in the Catholic church.

John Baldante

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are so many things that went wrong with this traffic stop, but it is indicative of what's happening around the country, and how officers walk away from cases with no disciplinary action, to include termination and or firing, it was shameful. It was embarrassing. It was disgusting.

Chapter President Valerie Butler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I do know significant head injuries can cause people to not know what happened or forget what happened, the fact that he doesn’t remember driving at all is also indicative and consistent with the objective symptom of impaired driving.

Jonathan Cherney

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We ... view the strong curve as indicative of tightening balances in which upcoming Saudi production cuts are more than offsetting increased demand concerns related to the coronavirus.

Jim Ritterbusch

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think that there's a consensus across political science that long lines on the first day of voting are not indicative of problems to come, they're simply indicative of enthusiasm.

Jessica Huseman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given the heighten( sic) sensitivity to racism in our country today, they are particularly concerning and divisive when made by elected officials, we are, and should be, held to higher standards in our thinking and actions. I can assure the citizens of Luray this type of thinking is not indicative of the Town Council Members or Staff.

Councilman Jerry Schiro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These fundraising totals are indicative of the momentum of this campaign, which is witnessing a surge of enthusiasm, our supporters are organized, they are activated, and they know that we need to send Ed Markey back to Massachusetts Senate.

John Walsh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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