selectiveness
Example Sentences
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Infante sees that selectiveness reflected in the marketplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He’s handled himself well. Really like his selectiveness the last couple games,” Showalter said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
The selectiveness also lends status: the attuned eye immediately recognizes a Farrow & Ball red such as Incarnadine or Blazer.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
The degree of selectiveness that immigration law imposes has varied highly from group to group.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2014
He had the aristocrat's contempt for mass feeling, a selectiveness carried so far that he instinctively chose for themes the picked person and experience, the one decisive moment of crisis.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
