promising
adjective
prom·is·ing
ˈprä-mə-siŋ 
: full of promise : likely to succeed or to yield good results
a promising new medicine
promisingly
adverb
Examples of promising in a Sentence
The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday
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His promising early baseball career took a back seat in 1943 when he was taken into the Navy and served as a radio operator on the USS Coral Sea during World War II.
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Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 9 Mar. 2025
The fourth-round draft pick had a promising rookie season in 2024, even after sustaining a scary neck injury in late November.
—Alex Zietlow and, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2025
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Named after his late mother, Donda Academy opened to a promising start in 2022.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 9 Mar. 2025
The fourth-round draft pick had a promising rookie season in 2024, even after sustaining a scary neck injury in late November.
—Alex Zietlow and, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2025
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Named after his late mother, Donda Academy opened to a promising start in 2022.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for promising
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“Promising.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/promising. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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