temperament
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But the 45-year-old mother of twins, who attend L.A. public schools, is more policy wonk in temperament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
But European bison have "a much more difficult and slightly more aggressive temperament".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Tennis great John McEnroe is hardly known for his mellow temperament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
McDermott, at the time, described Connor as a "game-breaker" and played down concerns over his temperament, saying: "I think the rhetoric and the narrative around Jake was tremendously unfair."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
I was sullen and dependent on my mother's sole attention, tender-hearted, and whiney: the classic temperament of the artist but without anything to show for my bad character.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"They all had quite different temperaments for different points in the film," she noted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
The show is smaller than more prominent podcasts with similarly progressive temperaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
He copied the model of a Erewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a ot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Vocabulary lists containing temperament
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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"The Mixer," Vocabulary from the short story
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Vocabulary from the First Presidential Debate: September 26, 2016
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