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This dog breed has a number of desirable traits.
honesty is one of her defining traits
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This month’s trait, kindness, will be celebrated in a Kindness Week at the end of January.
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Aside from this unusual trait, Yellow Red Heart promises to delight with vibrant yellow blossoms with a red throat that start early and continue through to a heavy frost.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2025
While Hutson's offensive talent is undeniable, his ability to balance risk and reward has been equally impressive, which is an immensely uncommon trait for a rookie.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Research has consistently shown that women are held to higher standards than their male counterparts and penalized for exhibiting the very traits—ambition, assertiveness, confidence—celebrated in men.
—Aniela Unguresan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Aside from this unusual trait, Yellow Red Heart promises to delight with vibrant yellow blossoms with a red throat that start early and continue through to a heavy frost.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2025
While Hutson's offensive talent is undeniable, his ability to balance risk and reward has been equally impressive, which is an immensely uncommon trait for a rookie.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Research has consistently shown that women are held to higher standards than their male counterparts and penalized for exhibiting the very traits—ambition, assertiveness, confidence—celebrated in men.
—Aniela Unguresan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Trait.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trait. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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trait
noun1
: a quality that sets one person or thing off from another : peculiarity sense 2
curiosity is one of her notable traits
2
: an inherited characteristic
dominant and recessive traits
Etymology
from early French trait "the act of pulling," from Latin tractus, past participle of trahere "to pull, drag" — related to trace entry 1, trace entry 3
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