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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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It’s just as relatable to see why two people decide to call it quits because of luck, timing and temperament as it is watching them happily pair off.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

In terms of temperament, what stood out, considering the context of our conversations, was how mild-mannered he seemed.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

"Shea has got the attributes to play at the highest level of the game, and the temperament to do so, and that is what you look for as a captain," O'Neill said at the time.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

"The resignation is definitely a surprise, because it is not in Mr. Modi's temperament to take a back step," analyst Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, who has written Modi's biography, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Except for the unison and the octave, none of the ratios for equal temperament are exactly the same as for the pure interval.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

The nominated Oscar shorts come in three categories — and a lot of subjects, styles and temperaments.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

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

Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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