Definitions
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- adjective
solemn
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective acting with or showing thought and good sense
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Examples
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But the state's egg producers, who confine about 6 million birds, could not get to a place where they supported a serious-minded animal welfare reform in egg production.
Wayne Pacelle: Cage-Free Campaign Takes Wing in Washington State Wayne Pacelle 2011
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So in those portraits, she comes across as a very - almost frightening-looking, serious-minded woman.
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With the loss, however, an element of Salita—a serious-minded 29-year-old with a wife and baby daughter—seems to have snapped.
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But the state's egg producers, who confine about 6 million birds, could not get to a place where they supported a serious-minded animal welfare reform in egg production.
Wayne Pacelle: Cage-Free Campaign Takes Wing in Washington State Wayne Pacelle 2011
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While critics and the tamer movie fans dismiss horror movies, I tend to give them a more serious-minded consideration.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The serious-minded, athletic power forward is expected to be a 20-point, 10-rebound player.
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As the impetus for group forming matures from Justin Bieber fan clubs and funny kitty videos to more serious-minded groups of craftspeople, office workers, skilled laborers and temp workers, watch out.
Tom Hayes: Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions? Tom Hayes 2011
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As the impetus for group forming matures from Justin Bieber fan clubs and funny kitty videos to more serious-minded groups of craftspeople, office workers, skilled laborers and temp workers, watch out.
Tom Hayes: Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions? Tom Hayes 2011
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Something more tangible than "appreciation" has to be the fruit of literary study or it does indeed become such a "soft" discipline that few serious-minded students will want to pursue it and even fewer scholars from other disciplines will consider it a respectable practice.
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While critics and the tamer movie fans dismiss horror movies, I tend to give them a more serious-minded consideration.
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