Definitions
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- noun a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
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Examples
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The first phrase, rejoicing in hope, refers to a mind-set.
Living on the Edge Chip Ingram 2009
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Americans had begun to abandon the old Wild West mind-set, the attitude that there was always an open frontier.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Americans had begun to abandon the old Wild West mind-set, the attitude that there was always an open frontier.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Americans had begun to abandon the old Wild West mind-set, the attitude that there was always an open frontier.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I took off my warm-up jacket with hundreds of pairs of eyes watching my every move and cast my glance downward to get deep into the mind-set of a demure and sensitive bird.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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In the “stark” mind-set, it is as if our very sense of sight, all those subtle shapes and shades, becomes treacherous and unreliable.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Luckily we both had the same mind-set about this decision.
The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011
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How the literary/media establishment responded to the respective memoirs of these two political figures revealed far less about the authenticity, honesty, and quality of the tales the authors tell than it did about the collective mind-set of that establishment.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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I took off my warm-up jacket with hundreds of pairs of eyes watching my every move and cast my glance downward to get deep into the mind-set of a demure and sensitive bird.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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Luckily we both had the same mind-set about this decision.
The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011
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