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It displayed how Bobo has consistently used his 6-foot-4, 207-pound frame and headiness to make up for his perceived biggest weakness — a lack of speed.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Like many of the Northern Irish punk songs, “Teenage Kicks” celebrated the headiness of being young, rather than spewing out bile: Those kids didn’t have to sing about aggression — they were living it.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

But Men struggles to keep its messages and all their headiness in focus largely because of its frustrating obsession with making you question just how much of its otherworldliness is real.

From The Verge • May 9, 2022

He thought the pass, which was risky, showed Heinicke’s headiness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

If heretofore I have done aught beyond what is just, through headiness or negligence of youth, I am ready, with God's help, to amend it utterly.'

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson