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trait

[trayt, tray] / treɪt, treɪ /


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That suggests the trait appeared sometime after lactoferrin emerged during mammalian evolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

There is one specific trait, however, that Pedroza said defines Thomas’ skills: his heat-seeking-missile accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

MarketWatch: What trait shows up the most among the successful entrepreneurs you studied?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Apparently, this trait is as annoying in humans as it is in AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

His twelve years of British schooling had failed to give him spleen, which was considered a gentleman’s most attractive trait.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Anthropic showed the religious leaders what the company called “emotional vectors,” or specific artificial neural-network prompts designed to simulate traits like love, fear and anger.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

During Maye’s sensational 2025, he demonstrated two traits that made his game appear mature beyond his years: his ability to avoid turnovers and his touch on deep passes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"We're seeing the results of what worked and what didn't work. Looking at how traits are naturally produced and selected through evolution, you can get information that could be useful for designing new antimicrobial tools."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

And because people with FTD retain some “cognitive horsepower,” as the FTD researcher Bruce Miller explains, Jenny’s newer acquaintances did not know that some of her personality traits stemmed from an illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As long as he knew they were his, he hated them because he saw all of his own and Mae’s worst traits in them.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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