adventurousness

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That’s the other side of the adventurousness, the charisma, the man ahead of his time who always wore the same hat so that people would identify his silhouette—he understood branding.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

While his artistic adventurousness may have waxed and waned, John Wilson never failed to champion humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

By 1888, New York politician and sometimes rancher Theodore Roosevelt described Western stockmen as "the pioneers of civilization," who with "their daring and adventurousness make the after settlement of the region possible."

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

“She represents freedom, dreaming big, adventurousness, seeking out the unknown,” said Jane Mendelsohn, who captured the heroine’s complicated mystique in a novel, “I Was Amelia Earhart.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline