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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 the 45-year-old mother of twins, who attend L.A. public schools, is more policy wonk in temperament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Tennis great John McEnroe is hardly known for his mellow temperament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

I saw him play there as Spurs captain recently and he has the quality, temperament and leadership qualities to step up to senior international level.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

It was all part of the Adams pattern, an iconoclastic and contrarian temperament that relished alienation.

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

She wrote the script and began searching for performers whose temperaments matched their Red Crescent counterparts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

I got so I could feel my audiences’ temperaments.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey


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