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mind-set

noun

Definition of mind-set

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a particular way of thinking politicians trying to understand the mind-set of voters She had the mind-set of a champion.

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Recent Examples of mind-set And that’s the sort of mindset that’s needed in this tournament. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026 Workflow-Centric Is The Key During loop engineering, your mindset is usually focused on workflow. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026 That mindset is worth preserving, adds Gizzy Rawlins, executive chef of Ela in Atlanta. — Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 16 June 2026 That will also be the mindset for Haaland, who is making his debut at the tournament. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 June 2026 And so began the process of looking for a franchise to associate with the coaster, one that would still make sense with Universal’s inside-the-movies mindset. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026 Shift your mindset and recognize that maintenance is a predictable, long-term cost. — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2026 In the coming years, Musk, SpaceX, and its diaspora will show how far that mindset can stretch. — Paresh Dave, Wired News, 12 June 2026 There’s a classist hierarchy with Chairwoman Park at the top, Josh and Lindsay in the middle, and Austin and Ashley at the bottom, and as Josh and Lindsay face off against Austin and Ashley, Lee and his collaborators sketch out a world ruled by a scarcity mind-set. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026

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Americans’ attitudes toward the economy have improved slightly as gas prices declined, but their outlook remains mostly negative.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Wilder’s work has since faced criticism for depicting some ghastly attitudes toward Native Americans.

— Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of attitude

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Even more concerning, the narrowing of ideas was most pronounced among students whose perspectives have historically been underrepresented in the data used to train these models.

— Vicki Phillips, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Like the switch suggests, The Vampire Lestat takes its inspiration from Rice’s 1985 novel of the same name, giving audiences their first taste of a show told entirely from the perspective of the dramatic, flashy, and murderous vampire Lestat.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026

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