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- adverb In an
open-minded manner.
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Examples
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Liberals believe individuals should doubt their own truths and consider fairly and open-mindedly the truths of others.
One Manifesto, Two Responses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It would take a trustworthy consensus among a wide group of researchers that have carefully, open-mindedly, and skeptically examined the question, the same sort of consensus that makes us confident about so many claims about physics, medicine, biology, astronomy, andmore.
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The third factor is that for actual learning to take place, you have to consider factors and facts that move you outside your “comfort zone,” possibly to consider other viewpoints or facts that you might otherwise reject and to examine them open-mindedly, and not with a view merely to dismiss or discredit them.
August « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Did you REALLY fully and open-mindedly consider her qualifications even THEN?
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The third factor is that for actual learning to take place, you have to consider factors and facts that move you outside your “comfort zone,” possibly to consider other viewpoints or facts that you might otherwise reject and to examine them open-mindedly, and not with a view merely to dismiss or discredit them.
Symptoms of Decline? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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He was able to personally and open-mindedly command knowledge of all sides, wherever and whenever he could get it by constantly reaching out and using everything he read, saw and felt.
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He was able to personally and open-mindedly command knowledge of all sides, wherever and whenever he could get it by constantly reaching out and using everything he read, saw and felt.
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It would take a trustworthy consensus among a wide group of researchers that have carefully, open-mindedly, and skeptically examined the question, the same sort of consensus that makes us confident about so many claims about physics, medicine, biology, astronomy, andmore.
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Both can recognize that the other cares about something s/he doesn't, and give an honest, heartfelt, sustained shot at either acquiring, open-mindedly sharing, supporting or just not crabbing about that interest.
Carolyn Hax: Should a partner change for you? Should you ask him to? 2010
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He was able to personally and open-mindedly command knowledge of all sides, wherever and whenever he could get it by constantly reaching out and using everything he read, saw and felt.
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