adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Your speed in reporting, printing and distribution is highly commendable .
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Santa gave them a highly commendable seven out of ten rating.
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For purposes other than electoral forecasting such close estimates would be regarded as highly commendable .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The headteacher thanked the boys for their efforts, which he said were most commendable .
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The police acted with commendable restraint, considering the amount of pressure they were under.
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The whole workforce has adapted to the new computing system with commendable speed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Sue Grayson Ford has an impressive and commendable history and says she thrives on challenges.
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Commitment of experimental method is in itself entirely commendable .
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Overall, thinking on children's needs, despite its commendable focus on specific categories, was incomplete.
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She told herself that she was showing commendable delicacy in not probing.
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This, they felt, was symptomatic of the paper's commendable interest in and support of, the arts.
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With commendable dispatch, it was completed and presented to the legislature in March 1880.
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Your speed in reporting, printing and distribution is highly commendable .