as in earnestness
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Advertisement The Chair Company’s hero is the other side of that coin, a disempowered man whose earnestness brings him only embarrassment and whose attempts to find someone to blame for his misery only dig him deeper into it.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025 -
The earnestness and sincerity that characterized so much music from the late ’90s were overtaken by the sneering rage of nu metal.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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There’s no feigned seriousness, no proclamations of honesty.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The system was elevated to ministerial status by Prime Minister Edi Rama to signal his seriousness in tackling corruption, and his commitment to institutionalizing advanced technologies.—
Tharin Pillay,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Sobersidedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sobersidedness. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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