successful
Etymology
success + -ful.
adj
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Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterpriseIf successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] . 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal CombustionThe dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…]"share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. 2013-06-21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
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