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How to use the word productive in a Sentence?

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I think a lot of that depends on how these discussions go today, tomorrow, the following day, i think there are a number of really critical details that we’ve still got to work out before making a final decision on a vote, but it’s been a very productive discussion, a lot of good ideas.

– Matt Gaetz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Things are just either not an issue, that are a standard part of the election process or things that really are n’t a problem getting politicized and blown out of proportion into this large threat, and it’s not productive. It does n’t help voters and will lead to additional costs.

– Brad Ashwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a broad, bipartisan support between the United States and our NATO and European allies to support Ukraine against Russian aggression, [W]e had a very productive meeting with President Zelensky. We talked primarily about what his needs are when it comes to winning this war. And he is providing this delegation with the list of the weapons the Ukraine needs to win.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can’t imagine that they’d be anymore productive if they were here more, it’s not like they do a lot when they’re here.

– Mike Tanner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sitting is an occupational hazard and a healthy employee is a more productive employee.

– Keith Diaz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s so great to be able to be sleeping again starting at midnight, it’s great to be able to be up early and be more productive with the sun.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given the little that we know, that seems like it would be a more expedient, appropriate and hopefully productive path for people to pursue if it ends up going to court at all.

– Andrew Block

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn’t think we were going to get any more productive by continuing on the day.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The policies pursued by these states have sparked a mass exodus of productive Americans from these jurisdictions, with Florida serving as the most desired destination, a promised land of sanity, many of these cities and states have embraced faddish ideology at the expense of enduring principles.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe she’s a good and effective senator and am looking forward to a productive session in the new Democratic majority Senate, we will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power and be able to clear nominees without discharge votes.

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We'll say what we always say and what President Biden has said to Xi Jinping, which is that human rights and basic civil liberties go to the heart of who we are as Americans and no American government, no American president is going to be silent on that, it's very important that we're communicating directly and clearly with China. We want to make sure there are no misunderstandings, no miscommunication, that we have a floor under the relationship and that the president has had a productive conversation in that sense.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are plenty of examples where they take productive cropland out of farming production and then they masquerade these projects, not only is it not available for growing crops anymore, but now you've endangered the environment because of stormwater erosion and you're cutting down trees. If your goal is to help with the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere, cutting down trees isn't green.

– Susan Ralston

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Torah guides everything that we do at Yeshiva — from how we educate students to how we run our dining halls to how we organize our campus, we care deeply for and welcome all our students, including our LGBTQ students, and continue to be engaged in a productive dialogue with our Rabbis, faculty and students on how we apply our Torah values to create an inclusive campus environment. We only ask the government to allow us the freedom to apply the Torah in accordance with our values.

– Ari Berman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Paul Morigi/Getty Images numbers are not such that running for president would be productive, so Paul Morigi/Getty Images’s unlikely to be a serious candidate and is [ polling ] 5 points lower than Trump.

– Mark Penn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They should be able to come to a safe place where there's not rats and roaches and hot conditions and little kindergartners in 58-degree weather, as an adult, if Maggy Counts go to work and it's freezing or 98 degrees or Maggy Counts forgot Maggy Counts lunch, Maggy Counts're not going to be a productive employee. And school is the same way.

– Maggy Counts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This accusation is a cowardly misrepresentation of facts by some jealous members or staff since we had a very productive bipartisan CODEL in March, i did not come to Congress to get paid for my travel vacations or dinners, but rather get things done. I have always been willing to spend my own hard-earned money to help with causes I care about.

– Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I determined this meeting would not be productive under those circumstances.

– Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When trust is broken, it takes a lot of effort to gain it back. Both parties – readers, viewers and news outlets – have to be willing to work together. The ‘my way or the highway’ approach by news outlets or their readers [and] viewers isn’t productive. Despite reticence toward give-and-take, compromise and collaboration are essential components for any potential solutions.

– Lois Boynton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most of the time when we have people who have extreme mental health crises, unfortunately, there's an outcome of either suicide or homicide, the four cases that we've done, all four of those individuals are alive today and are productive members of our society and are working toward a healthier life.

– Sheriff Robert Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have not raised this yet with the Russian Federation. If we feel that such outreach through our embassy in Moscow or otherwise would be productive in terms of finding more information on the whereabouts of these individuals, we won't hesitate to do that.

– Ned Price

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If Alejandro Lleras do that, Alejandro Lleras'll find the quality of Alejandro Lleras work will improve as well as Alejandro Lleras efficiency, so Alejandro Lleras will be more productive.

– Alejandro Lleras

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Need to end this call, i don't think this will be productive much longer.

– Jordan Fuchs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Meetings were extremely daunting, involving a lot of eye coordination between the presenting content on one screen and captions on another screen. I was often missing information and feeling excluded, i couldn't be as productive as my peers.

– Swetha Machanavajhala

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All of our interactions with companies over the last five years have been cordial, constructive and productive, we intend to keep it that way as it makes our job easier and more fun, and our quality of life better.

– Bill Ackman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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