disposition

When Doris did speak, her acerbic disposition could stop any further conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell,” the high court wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

"The Court's disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful," they said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

It’s a wistful, country-folk paean that offers both a wry yet realistic assessment of the disposition of collections someone leaves the planet.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

We’d been on the lookout for that letter these many weeks, and waiting hadn’t improved Tansy’s disposition.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“Scarborn” was, in fact, directed by the Polish Pawel Maślona and written by Michał A. Zieliński and finds structural soundness in having two heroes of such different, complementing dispositions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

This was based on a series of dispositions - or land transfer deeds – showing the property had been transferred to them by the surviving trustees.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Unlike Marxism or reform liberalism, it has no systematic ideological program; rather, it is a set of dispositions and attitudes.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

The agency finally approved the company’s marketing of tests to determine genetic dispositions to 10 health conditions, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and certain blood clotting disorders, in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025

How do we change—within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson