as in bashfulness
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Noun
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Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025 -
At its best, the uncomfortably intimate aesthetic of the films combined with the general diffidence at their heart attempted to epitomize a generational temperament and linguistic sensibility.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2024
Noun
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McRae stands alone as a pop allegiant, one with deference to the artists that came before her and a proclivity for their brand of spectacle.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Among those who have raised concern about Trump’s leverage over Adams were four of his deputy mayors, who submitted their resignations earlier this week due to their unease about his deference to the president, according to sources.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Whether the current American president has become a king, particularly after the sweeping grant of immunity in 2024 by the Supreme Court and the seeming acquiescence by Congress to Trump’s latest directives, remains up for debate.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Empowered by this legislative acquiescence, Trump has now decided to put a freeze on all federal aid that does not fit with his agenda.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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More than once, that passivity slipped into calamity.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Or does so only briefly in the ambiguous ending, when Sofia throws off the last vestiges of her passivity and forces her recalcitrant mother into a reckoning with her condition.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Reservedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reservedness. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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