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These are Yvan’s people, however, and as this damning portrait of private banking reveals, he’s ready to navigate them as enterprisingly in the worst of times as he would in the best of times.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

It was created, according to Gawker, on Monday by “by enterprisingly sleazy party photographer Kirill Bichutsky.”

From Forbes • Dec. 12, 2012

But few of us knew that he had done his own free adaptation of Chekhov's play, premiered in Vancouver in 1981 and now enterprisingly unearthed by Phil Willmott.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010

Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

One or two would have brought in money, if enterprisingly heralded as Swiss or Belgian giants.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various