businesslike
Example Sentences
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While conceding talks were challenging, Kremlin negotiator Vladimir Medinsky added that they had been "businesslike" and said another meeting would take place "soon".
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
But Dmitriev felt his businesslike rapport was breaking through.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
“She wasn’t being egotistical. It was very businesslike, a moment of power, and I was like, ‘I want to have that power.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
The senior Ukrainian source told AFP that the tone of rhetoric between the White House and Kyiv was now "very businesslike."
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
Though on a psychological level his manner was almost painfully intimate, superficially it was businesslike and cold.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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