Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(5)
Dictionary
was something promising
pronoun
An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
synonyms
Exact(1)
True, pirates were thieves and torturers, but there was something promising about their alternative to capitalism.
Similar(57)
But there's something promising here — as Mason points out, what's exciting is the fact that it's a business model that actually benefits from file-sharing, rather than discouraging it.
There is something promising about the CEO of a publicly traded corporation worth $40 billion urging the public to demand that big business balance profit motives against attention to the public good.
Behind the stunt was something more promising and risky, an ambition not to follow a composer's structures but to rearrange them into a structure of his own.
A goal that feels good can be something like promising to say the words "Thank you" more often, or spending more time with a pet or getting more sleep.
It's way too soon to recommend that parents haul their tikes to the farm to prevent allergies, he says, but "maybe we're onto something promising for reversing this global trend".
Despite the confusion, anger, and devastation that had transpired over the past year-and-a-half, and particularly over the past three days, I knew without a doubt that what I heard was something divine, clear, and promising.
There was something about Anthony that seemed promising, although he hadn't made a commitment to me at all.
Willetts said that the Conservative party had not yet established precisely how tax breaks would be given to married couples, predicting that they would probably not be introduced in the first budget, but promising that this was something that would happen "over the lifetime of the first parliament".
The ad format is still in closed beta but D'Angelo says "so far the results are pretty promising, and that was something that was important to the investors in this round".
All three films chronicle young adults of varying socioeconomic stature longing to break from their surroundings, all because they know there is something more promising around the corner.
More suggestions(1)
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com