willingness

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Noun
  • His kitchen skills, puckish humor and enthusiasm helped earn him regular invitations to appear on TV cooking shows, including every Food Network series and a couple shows for TLC.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,104 points, or 2.6%, staying near its highs for most of the session with buying enthusiasm remaining strong.
    Brian Evans,Yun Li,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • That being said, the appearance of appearing to bend the knee to Trump with such alacrity has caused widespread alarm in legal circles.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Trump's tariffs are also leading to more alacrity from the central government.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On May 12, Hamas released Edan Alexander, a soldier with Israeli and U.S. citizenship and the last American detainee in its hands, as a goodwill gesture to Trump, and there were rumors of a meeting between Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • Tevez hopped across town to Manchester City and torched his goodwill.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Those on the left must recognize that their moralistic zeal and narrowing of intellectual discourse have turned educational and cultural institutions into engines of alienation, not trust.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • Champion Know-How Over Credential A highly successful R&D company in the aerospace industry described how so many of their associates worked for free after retirement, driven solely by their zeal to learn.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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“Willingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/willingness. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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