gravitas
Example Sentences
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Famed for predicting the housing market crash and a vocal skeptic of the AI boom, Michael Burry is now invoking one of the world’s most famous investors to add gravitas to his argument.
From MarketWatch
The promo seemed like an odd choice given how the network evening news anchor has traditionally been a position requiring gravitas and comforting familiarity for its habit-driven audience.
From Los Angeles Times
Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
The poignancy of “Stand by Me,” the authenticity and gravitas he invested in this story of youth, makes it a personal triumph — his funny father couldn’t, and wouldn’t, have directed anything like it.
From Los Angeles Times
He is well-known for speaking candidly in ways that CEOs with less gravitas wouldn’t.
From Barron's
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