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resilience
1. n. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. n. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
3. n. The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

Example Sentences

But I think the strength of community spirit is at the centre of it, along with the quality and professionalism of staff and the hard work and resilience of the children.

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