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attitudes

noun

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 But coming off the back of that, there was all of this legislation that was pretty awful and generally, there were a lot of homophobic attitudes, still quite extreme, even as late as the 1990s. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026 The table below shows how Harris voters weighed in on the four attitudes in August 2024 and June 2026. — Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 Israelis’ attitudes towards Palestinians, occupation, and conflict have become more extreme. — Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 Like the attitudes of the people in charge of ESPN 10 years ago are not the same as the attitudes of the people now. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026 Differences are also present across demographics, with people from different ages, genders, and economic classes having different attitudes towards repair. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026 The Urban Institute set out to answer that question with a nationally representative survey of more than 3,000 adults, comparing the financial attitudes and behaviors of Gen Z adults (ages 18 to 29) with those of older Americans. — Shae Lake, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 Governments from tiny Qatar and Kuwait to much larger Saudi Arabia and Algeria are navigating shifting attitudes around the role of women – while also confronting economic and employment challenges. — Monitor's Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2026 Musk has tied his own attitudes on transgender rights to his estrangement from one of his children, who is a transgender woman. — Lisa Hagen, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

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Governments around the world are hardening their AI stances as more agentic hacks breach critical systems.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Differing stances over the war in Gaza and antisemitism are central to that split, and to this by-election.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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Mogwai, who would make their debut the year after Beat was released and with whom Bowery Electric would share a bill, would crouch in similarly unassuming and tense postures and use them to spring out and scare the bejeezus out of people.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
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

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