as in sense
the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems
most teenagers do not have the mentality to foresee the consequences of such risky behavior
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Recent Examples of mentality
Westbrook couldn’t love that mentality more.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Companies embracing this new mentality will thrive financially and cultivate cultures where care is quantifiable and every life moment is truly supported.
—Anant Agarwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Neither was his mentality for aggressive hitting in the clutch.
—Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 1 Sep. 2025
In recent years, the foundation has grown to support various causes representing the lunch pail mentality.
—Christina Daves, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Companies embracing this new mentality will thrive financially and cultivate cultures where care is quantifiable and every life moment is truly supported.
—Anant Agarwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Neither was his mentality for aggressive hitting in the clutch.
—Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 1 Sep. 2025
In recent years, the foundation has grown to support various causes representing the lunch pail mentality.
—Christina Daves, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mentality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mentality
Noun
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Bryce Young has to be better After building up an immense sense of goodwill, locally and nationally, with his second-half performance from last year, Young essentially melted away in the Jacksonville heat.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Giving people a greater sense of agency.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Managing and interpreting the flood of data would be impossible without machine intelligence.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Counterterrorism strategies must continue to adapt to meet this evolving battleground, leveraging not only military and intelligence tools but also public-private partnerships with tech platforms, AI monitoring, and global diplomacy.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Michèle comes across as a singular and powerful personality, with something of Akerman’s own trenchant intellect, assertive candor, and vulnerable self-revelation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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With his new book, Pan, Clune has turned his cockeyed sensibility and coruscating intellect to fiction.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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In many cases, the two reasons amount to the same thing, with the same cause.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The second reason is that these aura battler designs were very complex and full of curves as well as weird angles.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Mentality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mentality. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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