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- noun Quality of being
mercurial ;mercuriality .
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Examples
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He takes the subway to work, not a town car, and lacks the imperiousness or mercurialness that surround other celebrity editors, including his predecessor,
NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2010
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He takes the subway to work, not a town car, and lacks the imperiousness or mercurialness that surround other celebrity editors, including his predecessor,
NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2010
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He takes the subway to work and lacks the imperiousness or mercurialness that surround other celebrity editors, including his predecessor, Tina Brown.
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He takes the subway to work and lacks the imperiousness or mercurialness that surround other celebrity editors, including his predecessor, Tina Brown.
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He takes the subway to work and lacks the imperiousness or mercurialness that surround other celebrity editors, including his predecessor, Tina Brown.
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There’s the mercurialness; the tantrums; the hours-long, dictator-like speeches; the famous, desperate, and transparent hogging of credit; and always the charismatic-leader complex (known widely as the Jobs “reality-distortion field”), through which he has been able to seduce and, subsequently, abandon so many of the people he’s worked with.
iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006
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There’s the mercurialness; the tantrums; the hours-long, dictator-like speeches; the famous, desperate, and transparent hogging of credit; and always the charismatic-leader complex (known widely as the Jobs “reality-distortion field”), through which he has been able to seduce and, subsequently, abandon so many of the people he’s worked with.
iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006
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