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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

Understanding his temperament and character is also the starting point for understanding why Barcelona, not Real Madrid, is where his career has turned next after leaving Man City in the summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

Hand him a first-class ticket to any conflict zone on Earth and his diplomatic temperament would ease tensions that have long bedeviled U.N. envoys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Her temperament was not based on a series of good and bad days but, rather, good and bad moments.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

The Randall sons managed their inheritances according to their temperaments.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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