disposition
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It’s a wistful, country-folk paean that offers both a wry yet realistic assessment of the disposition of collections someone leaves the planet.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
That coexistence is made easier by the disposition of the animals, which evolved to be mostly oblivious to unnatural human dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A comparison is either an argument for Bloom’s potential or a warning about its price, depending on your disposition.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Among them is the disposition effect, a behavioral investing phenomenon that causes people to sell their winners too early and hold on to losers for too long.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Phipps crossed her fingers, hoping that these matings would re-create the perfect forms of the forebears without the tyrannical disposition.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
After adjusting for closed acquisitions and dispositions, production fell by 98,000 barrels or 4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
This was based on a series of dispositions - or land transfer deeds – showing the property had been transferred to them by the surviving trustees.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
The agency finally approved the company’s marketing of tests to determine genetic dispositions to 10 health conditions, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and certain blood clotting disorders, in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
But France supports a certain number of dispositions that reinforce obligations of the financial sector in the framework of this directive.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
How do we change—within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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