volition
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The Colbert who leaves “The Late Show” this week — not of his own volition — is and isn’t the same Colbert who took it over.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Whether a person with a major psychiatric disorder can muster the necessary volition to support such an irreversible decision, and whether doctors can reliably determine that a patient’s condition is irremediable, are major question marks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
He went back to pick them up, sliding them onto her feet so it looked as though she had been fully dressed when she got into the car, of her own volition.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025
Like his character, washed-up Formula One racer Sonny Hayes, Pitt is returning to the grandest version of this race by his own volition, with his own set of rules.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025
She is frightening me now, because what I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of volition.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing volition
To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Things They Carried
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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