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Noun
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Some will see this as a stain on his reputation, others will shrug their shoulders and say that football has never been an especially moral place, and that worse things are happening out there than accounting indiscretions.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Smith lightened the level of the indiscretion, which goes deeper in Molnar’s version.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2025
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His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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To complement these ladies navigating a sea of business attire by sexing it up with insouciance (as well as micro hemlines and plenty of sheer) were her male coworkers who dabbled in a bit of New Romantic touches.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The frenetic pace of domestic migration, and to a lesser extent, foreign in-migration, during the early 2020s boosted demand in the multifamily space and created exuberance on the supply side, particularly in the Sunbelt.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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On April 21, gold prices soared past an unprecedented $3,400 per ounce—a psychological and material threshold that speaks volumes not about market exuberance, but about collective dread.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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Her zeal and upbeat attitude, even through the most unpleasant moments, kept me from descending further into a pit of negativity.—
Olivia James,
Outside Online,
24 Apr. 2025
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The public’s current zeal for space travel may be heightening interest in all things blue and teal.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Impulsivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impulsivity. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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