attitudes

plural of attitude
as in stances
a general way of holding the body had the ramrod straight attitude of a man who had spent all of his life in the military

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Recent Examples of attitudes While the missing middle policy holds theoretical promise, public attitudes may be moving in the opposite direction. Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026 Among the new generation, though, attitudes are gradually changing. Adrien Marotte, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026 Other Eurasian emperors of the time also did not persecute occult practitioners as Ivan did in the lead-up to the second oprichnina, actions more in line with attitudes in early modern Christian Europe than those common among rulers of Asia. Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 The home is in a historic neighborhood that reflected post-World War II Los Angeles’ embrace of mid-century modern building design and mid-century, West Coast modern attitudes about race, class and equality. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026 The cast share the characters’ disparate attitudes toward queerness. Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 The regulations issued in 2024 made many of those changes permanent, and more broadly, pushed clinics and state-level regulators to leave punitive, rigid attitudes in the past. Lev Facher, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026 Pew also surveyed public opinion about Israel in thirty-five other countries and found broadly negative attitudes toward Israel prevailing. Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026 Dehumanizing attitudes toward domestic and other foreign workers have been prevalent in the region for generations. Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • Self-certification for prediction market platforms At Thursday's meeting, Terry Duffy, the chair and CEO of CME Group, took one of the most aggressive stances on how prediction markets should operate.
    Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Raman has to win over voters who supported Pratt’s conservative stances while not alienating her progressive base.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
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  • Alice and Gemma really don’t seem to get along, and neither seems inclined to back down from their hostile postures.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That is a chain of very different tasks and different security postures.
    Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Attitudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attitudes. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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