temperament
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You know her temperament better than I do, and if she is a reasonable and levelheaded person, it would do no harm to give her a heads-up.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I've known and respected Jay Clayton for decades. His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI," added Jim Hines, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Debutant opener Emilio Gay looked to have the temperament for Test cricket and his second-innings 57 was the highest individual score of the match.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
For generations, the world’s top horse breeders have carefully mixed bloodlines for temperament, strength, conformation and athleticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
For a good while, the breezy chuckles in “Sacramento” stem from the eccentric clash of priorities and temperaments of a certain kind of limbo male whose sociability skills have soured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
He copied the model of a Erewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a ot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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