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- noun exuberant liveliness
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Examples
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Leland Tollett, a former Tyson Foods CEO who worked side-by-side with Don Tyson for decades, remembered his friend for the high-spiritedness he brought to the business.
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Leland Tollett, a former Tyson Foods CEO who worked side-by-side with Don Tyson for decades, remembered his friend for the high-spiritedness he brought to the business.
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The tea party's rise reflects anything but fatalism, and maybe even a new high-spiritedness.
Tea Party to the Rescue Peggy Noonan 2010
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Mr. Zakaria, born and raised in India, got his first sense of America's vitality, outsized ways, glamour and crazy high-spiritedness as a young boy in the late 1970s watching bootlegged videotapes of "Dallas."
Tea Party to the Rescue Peggy Noonan 2010
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Leland Tollett, a former Tyson Foods CEO who worked side-by-side with Don Tyson for decades, remembered his friend for the high-spiritedness he brought to the business.
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Leland Tollett, a former Tyson Foods CEO who worked side-by-side with Don Tyson for decades, remembered his friend for the high-spiritedness he brought to the business.
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Leland Tollett, a former Tyson Foods CEO who worked side-by-side with Don Tyson for decades, remembered his friend for the high-spiritedness he brought to the business.
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The dialogue identifies justice with a balance among reason, the high-spiritedness that Plato calls thumos or to thumoeides, and the desires collectively known as epithumiai.
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
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So, a little fight there from Teddy Kennedy today, and we saw some of that high-spiritedness coming from Senator Kennedy out off of the coast of Cape Cod.
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We kind of smile at her high-spiritedness, the man makes a joking comment and disappears, then we go on to watch the movie without thinking badly of her and certainly not viewing her as an abuser ever thought what would happen to that guys face if the vase had hit him?
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