levelheaded
adjective
lev·el·head·ed
ˌle-vəl-ˈhe-dəd 
: having or showing sound judgment : sensible
levelheadedness
noun
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She is levelheaded about her chances for success as an actress.
a levelheaded assessment of the problem
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His account of the country's political dynamics before, during, and after this period is exhaustively researched, levelheaded, and persuasive.
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Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
Amid this quagmire, the journalist Paige McClanahan’s book, The New Tourist, is a levelheaded defense of tourism that proposes a genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
Martinez has been a levelheaded voice in the clubhouse during trying times, bringing some of the veteran leadership the Mets hoped for.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
But more levelheaded engineers have also scrutinized the problem in detail, and the technical issues appear to be understood well enough to suggest possible work-arounds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012
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Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
Amid this quagmire, the journalist Paige McClanahan’s book, The New Tourist, is a levelheaded defense of tourism that proposes a genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
Martinez has been a levelheaded voice in the clubhouse during trying times, bringing some of the veteran leadership the Mets hoped for.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
But more levelheaded engineers have also scrutinized the problem in detail, and the technical issues appear to be understood well enough to suggest possible work-arounds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012
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levelheaded
adjective
lev·el·head·ed
ˌlev-əl-ˈhed-əd
: having or showing good judgment : sensible
levelheadedness
noun
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