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enviable

[en-vee-uh-buhl] / ˈɛn vi ə bəl /


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Nathan Patterson, Anthony Ralston, or does Clarke go rogue and ask Kieran Tierney to do one of the least enviable jobs in football?

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

After posting a combined record of 7-27 last season—the worst in the shared history of the two franchises—New York’s football teams are finally in an enviable position: all over the first round of the draft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Viking shares have been on a similarly enviable journey.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

It is an enviable demographic bulge, the kind that powered East Asia's economic miracles.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Many was the young farmer suffocating in credit who came to Randall for advice—advice freely and generously given—and in his time came to master an enviable spread.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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