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: having a will especially of a specified kind
—usually used in combination
strong-willed
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Examples of willed in a Sentence
a hard-nosed industrialist with a willed indifference to public opinion
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And that raucous crowed willed Belgium to a first-quarter spark that included seven points from guard Julie Vanloo.
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Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
And there are those who may view Coppola’s insistence that the Garden of Eden can be dialectically willed into existence as naive.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
The revelation that Hammons' ancestors appear to have been denied land willed to them by a wealthy slaveholder also adds to a growing push for reparations to help make up for the wealth Black descendants of enslaved people lost, Schermerhorn said.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
FitzGerald is Brooks, the mission’s strong willed and determined co-pilot, while Fiennes Tiffin plays Rhodes, an idealistic astronaut on his first mission.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
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Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
And there are those who may view Coppola’s insistence that the Garden of Eden can be dialectically willed into existence as naive.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
The revelation that Hammons' ancestors appear to have been denied land willed to them by a wealthy slaveholder also adds to a growing push for reparations to help make up for the wealth Black descendants of enslaved people lost, Schermerhorn said.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
FitzGerald is Brooks, the mission’s strong willed and determined co-pilot, while Fiennes Tiffin plays Rhodes, an idealistic astronaut on his first mission.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
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willed
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: having a will especially of a certain kind
strong-willed
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