as in curiosity
an eager desire to find out about things that are often none of one's business
children have a natural curiousness about where babies come from
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Noun
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Her intention was to establish a nonprofit company that values rigor and innovation, but also collaboration, curiosity, and care for the people creating the work.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026 -
She will be remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, unique style, and her powdered, almond, crescent cookies at Christmas, hence her name, Auntie Cookie.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 May 2026
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Analysts have previously expressed concern that US stocks of the interceptors have been depleted by the Iran conflict as well as by last year’s 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and noted that manufacturing more takes time.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Those concerns that chopped 30% off cyber stocks earlier this year could not have been more wrong, as Jim Cramer had said all along.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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“Curiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curiousness. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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