temperament
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“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
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
The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generation strong characters of peculiar habits and even adventurous temperament.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
“There was so much to fish because it was a big family, and big families hide a lot of stories and have so many temperaments and colors,” Delpero says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
The more subtle management skill was to match temperaments with the groups.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Vocabulary lists containing temperament
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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"The Mixer," Vocabulary from the short story
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Vocabulary from the First Presidential Debate: September 26, 2016
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