Example sentences for: tangible

How can you use “tangible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The technocratic governments that replaced dictatorships in South and Central America have reduced inflation, increased trade, and lowered deficits, but they have yet to deliver tangible benefits to average citizens.

  • Much as the one tangible consequence of Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech, in 1979, was that it taught millions of Americans a new French word (which Carter in his speech in fact never uttered; the word was picked up from pre-speech "spinning" by Carter's political adviser, Patrick Caddell), so too a consequence of the Thompson committee hearings has been to give wide currency to the term soft money , in the sense of "money that can be collected for use in political campaigns but which enjoys an existence outside the rules, the oversight, and the control of the Federal Election Commission."

  • NIPA historically recognized tangible investments and considered other spending to be consumption.

  • It's vague on what that mission would be: "It almost doesn't matter what great task government sets for itself, as long as it does some tangible thing with energy and effectiveness."

  • The community-wide experiment on methods to test protein structure prediction (CASP) was first initiated in 1994, as a means of evaluating structure prediction methods in a blind and rigourous manner [ 1 ] . This was motivated in part by claims in the literature of the protein folding problem being "solved" without producing tangible benefits, since most of the "solutions" included a strong dependence on the test set.


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