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level-headed

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adjective

  1. even-tempered, balanced, and reliable; steady

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lenny Kaye was the kind of cool, level-headed rock ‘n’ roll maven who was both important to and part of our history.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

Jude Bellingham conducts himself like a man twice his age, the wisdom, the level-headed nature and the self-awareness.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Becerra’s supporters say a level-headed leader is what California needs.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

“He seemed like a level-headed person,” one friend says of Richard “Beebo” Russell, the subject of the documentary “#Skyking.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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