attributes
Americannoun
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"Shea has got the attributes to play at the highest level of the game, and the temperament to do so, and that is what you look for as a captain," O'Neill said at the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The dark-eyed beauty Indiana, protagonist of George Sand’s 1832 novel of the same name, shares quite a few attributes with her creator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He attributes the fact that no fatalities have been reported in part to the seriousness with which residents and public safety personnel have handled evacuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Apollo attributes that weakness to rich offering valuations, higher interest rates and a public market increasingly dominated by a handful of profitable megacapitalization companies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
But a number of idealistic mountaineers continued to insist that a gifted athlete blessed with rare physiological attributes could, after a lengthy period of acclimatization, climb the peak without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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