Examples of trait in a Sentence
This dog breed has a number of desirable traits.
honesty is one of her defining traits
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The Dalmatian Club of America, for example, spent decades urging breeders to euthanize deaf puppies so the trait wouldn’t spread.
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Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Additionally, the study also found a correlation between breathing traits and a person’s mental health.
—Jay Kakade
june 22, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
This study, whose findings were published Wednesday, took a different approach by looking at the trait of flexibility itself.
—Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
The technology is able to do this by not only detecting specific genetic markers for certain diseases but by also calculating polygenic scores, which combine up to a million genetic markers into a single number to determine someone's genetic predisposition for a condition or trait.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
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Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Additionally, the study also found a correlation between breathing traits and a person’s mental health.
—Jay Kakade
june 22, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
This study, whose findings were published Wednesday, took a different approach by looking at the trait of flexibility itself.
—Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
The technology is able to do this by not only detecting specific genetic markers for certain diseases but by also calculating polygenic scores, which combine up to a million genetic markers into a single number to determine someone's genetic predisposition for a condition or trait.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
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“Trait.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trait. Accessed 30 Jun. 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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