qualities
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But she seems to have wandered in from some other aesthetic universe; the very qualities that lead some to say she doesn’t fit in are those that make her feel fresh to me.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Improving one or two of those qualities often reduces the third.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
Given the chemical’s acidic and corrosive qualities, it would be difficult to load it onto a truck, he noted.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
It takes gumption to walk away from a lucrative job and grit to build a startup, but don’t mistake those qualities for self-assuredness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Schrödinger was trying to conjure up a chemical that would capture the divergent, contradictory qualities of heredity—a molecule to satisfy Aristotle.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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