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the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems
most teenagers do not have the mentality to foresee the consequences of such risky behavior
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Recent Examples of mentality
His initial mentality is to be efficient while getting the necessary outs that are assigned.
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Get away from monthly payment mentality A big mistake many car shoppers make is looking at the monthly cost of the vehicle.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That mentality needs to continue.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
What everybody loves about Ortegas is that can do mentality and also that cockiness.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Get away from monthly payment mentality A big mistake many car shoppers make is looking at the monthly cost of the vehicle.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That mentality needs to continue.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
What everybody loves about Ortegas is that can do mentality and also that cockiness.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mentality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mentality
Noun
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Your base is the foundation of any makeup look, but in the year 2025, that doesn’t have to include actual foundation—at least not in the traditional sense.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Instead of clarity and a sense of financial empowerment, individuals experience costly missteps and are left unsure of where to find reliable guidance—eroding any trust in the mainstream financial system.—
Sandy Anderson,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Managing and interpreting the flood of data would be impossible without machine intelligence.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Counterterrorism strategies must continue to adapt to meet this evolving battleground, leveraging not only military and intelligence tools but also public-private partnerships with tech platforms, AI monitoring, and global diplomacy.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Michèle comes across as a singular and powerful personality, with something of Akerman’s own trenchant intellect, assertive candor, and vulnerable self-revelation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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With his new book, Pan, Clune has turned his cockeyed sensibility and coruscating intellect to fiction.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In many cases, the two reasons amount to the same thing, with the same cause.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The second reason is that these aura battler designs were very complex and full of curves as well as weird angles.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Mentality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mentality. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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