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gumption

noun as in courage; initiative; shrewdness

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Political parties, though, like companies, can’t survive simply on the gumption of the person at the top.

Now it is down to cricket's governors to show the required guts and gumption.

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Shelley is overeager and desperate; he just lacks Jimmy’s/Saul’s imagination and gumption.

These days, we need more gumption and electrolytes to check CNN than we do to climb Everest.

Throughout her life, Irawati would display this streak of gumption combined with endless empathy, especially for the women she encountered.

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