selectiveness
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Infante sees that selectiveness reflected in the marketplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He’s handled himself well. Really like his selectiveness the last couple games,” Showalter said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Obviously, you can’t describe everything, so it requires a kind of selectiveness.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2020
The selectiveness also lends status: the attuned eye immediately recognizes a Farrow & Ball red such as Incarnadine or Blazer.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
In this way the distinction of good and evil, like time, becomes a tyrant in this philosophy, and introduces into thought the restless selectiveness of action.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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