mentality
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“Butcher is aware on some level that he has this scorched-earth mentality and that he’s willing to do anything to get what he wants — and he needs someone to pull him back,” Quaid says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Hit by a second energy crisis in four years, governments are developing a hoarder mentality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
This time it was a more blunt, less family-friendly phrase that drove her "go for it" mentality.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
"But if we can calm down, we should be able to get to a stable mentality," said Zhang.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Perhaps from this mentality, as well as from uncritical literal copying, came the medieval habit of reporting reported observations and experiments as if they were original.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing mentality
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