mousiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousiness
Noun
  • We should be united about what’s at stake, compromise in deference to the facts, and work together to build what America needs.
    John Ketchum, Fortune, 24 June 2025
  • Even as Marine Corps recruiters promote enlistment as protection for families lacking legal status, directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families, immigration law experts say.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The major sticking point in negotiations that kept the strike going for nearly a year was protections surrounding generative A.I., which the gaming companies made significant acquiescences to come their best, last and final offer.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • His goal seems to be to scare the public into acquiescence.
    Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • New Delhi and Washington have made important strides together toward balancing Chinese power in recent years, but India’s diffidence about a tight partnership with the United States frustrates this outcome.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
  • Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Poirier failed to unify the title, losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov by submission at UFC 242 in September 2019.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • This helps users meet limits on meta descriptions, ads or submission forms.
    Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • In October 2024, Apple started to require identity verification for users sending more than $500 in total Apple Cash peer-to-peer transactions in line with anti-money laundering compliance.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Before coming to The Athletic, Weiss spent a decade working for the government, primarily as a compliance bank regulator.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Curry’s passivity to start games, and his turnovers, have been complicit in the Warriors’ sputtering offense.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Intimacies weaves Kitamura’s interest in passivity and performance into her most direct form of moral and political critique.
    Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Mousiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousiness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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