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temperament

[tem-per-uh-muhnt, -pruh-muhnt, -per-muhnt] / ˈtɛm pər ə mənt, -prə mənt, -pər mənt /


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But European bison have "a much more difficult and slightly more aggressive temperament".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

Mr. Gates is late to the ranks of the warners, whom some have labeled doomers to reduce their warnings to a matter of temperament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“He’s just such a cool horse,” Koch said, noting the gelding is known around the barn as “Clifford the Big Red Dog” because of his chestnut coat and a temperament Fenton describes as “sweet.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

By temperament, he was inherently impulsive, highly combustible, instinctively irreverent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Their backgrounds and temperaments could hardly be more different, yet both sense in each other a missing piece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

Just like that, there are new heads on new pillows—new temperaments, new dreams.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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