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How to use the word traits in a Sentence?

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Pisces are deeply empathetic and compassionate, as the mutable water sign, they are open to immersing themselves in new experiences or listening deeply to the opinions of others. You should keep all these traits in mind when choosing a birthday gift for your favorite Pisces.

Phoebe Fenrir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This type of work really matters, corals selected for restoration might, for example, be more resistant to warmer ocean temperatures and bleaching, exhibit skeletal properties that are able to withstand more intense wave energy, or traits that might make them more resistant to disease or other environmental stressors.

Thomas Frazer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Specific traits may increase risk due to a lifetime of behaviors that predispose a person to developing cognitive decline or Alzheimer's disease, or there could be more of a direct biological role related to early disease pathology, neuroticism is specifically one trait that comes to mind, and past meta-analyses have also show this. Rumination and worry is linked to smaller brain volumes.

Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They have to know that it's not obligatory, that they can be who they are, and that there's not a set of predetermined personality traits they have to meet.

Ronald Levant

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've had many opportunities to return to review her work and observe her work over the years as a judge, and on several occasions I reviewed her decisions on appeal, although we did not always agree on the outcome the law required, I respected her diligent and careful approach, her deep understanding and her collegial manner, indispensable traits for success as a justice on Supreme Court.

Thomas Griffith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What our data show is that between 4,600-4,200 years ago, herders located in the Don-Volga region found a way to increase the local horse reproductive pool, that means that they could reproduce more and more such horses generation after generation. They also selected horses with specific traits.

Ludovic Orlando

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The American public expects that high-ranking public servants will act with the highest levels of honesty and integrity, certainly, someone in the position to lead an agency with 10,000 employees and a portfolio including a large portion of U.S. land, should exemplify these traits.

Michael Chamberlain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They might think that it operates as an homage because it appears to honor Black style. In this case, they graft off of what academics have called the esthétique du cool that attends Black culture, in reality, Blackfishing situates that style as a commodity. It has the effect of reducing a people with a specific history to a series of appropriable traits or objects.

Leslie Bow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These methods were applied to 95 representative fossils and over 600 metrical and morphological traits, and the analyses revealed 3 main clades of later Pleistocene humans: H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis and a group containing Harbin and other Chinese fossils such as Dali, Jinniushan and Xiahe.

Christopher Stringer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The coverup continues via refusal to allow WHO access, accept CDC offers to assist, and simply tell the truth of this pandemic’s endemic dangerous, incessant and pernicious injurious traits, which has caused huge injury to the American people and citizens of the world, Chinese citizens included, does anyone sane doubt that?

David Asher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can't blame Neanderthals for Covid. That's a damaging response, and that's why I want to emphasize so much the social and environmental factors are the real things that people should be worrying about, that said, as a geneticist, I think it is important to know the evolutionary history of the genetic variants we find that do have effects on traits. The effects of Neanderthal DNA traits are detectable, but they're modest.

Tony Capra

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To a great extent, the PR experts need to know the target consumer, their traits, media consumption habits, preferences, everything.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

Whats remarkable about all this is that plotopterids and ancient penguins evolved these shared features independently, this is an example of what we call convergent evolution, when distantly related organisms develop similar morphological traits under similar environmental conditions.

Vanessa De Pietri

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We provide the first reconstruction of the skeletal anatomy of Denisovans, in many ways, Denisovans resembled Neanderthals, but in some traits, they resembled us, and in others they were unique.

Liran Carmel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

By no means do I want to suggest that Puerto Rico is the center of everything Trump-related, but it certainly is a platform which exemplifies all of the worst traits of The President, why The President is racist.

Peggy Davis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Singapore may benefit twice as much from the Hong Kong fallout as both these destinations share similar traits.

Derek Tan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler

added by Normando
4 years ago

He was the type of player who led by example and, in doing so, raised the level of play of all those around him, forrest symbolized many great traits and virtues that can be learned from this game to inspire people from all walks of life.

David Baker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm not President Donald Trump. I can honestly say I never had a beer in my life. It's one of my only good traits, can you imagine if I had ? What a mess I would be.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves, even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits, and characteristics( as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation.

Sesame Workshop

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Oh, these animals are gorgeous, truly some of the most beautiful and enigmatic lizards in the world, living on one of the most megadiverse islands on the planet, they have other cool traits such as giving birth to live young and adhesive toe pads.

Christopher Austin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The contradictory traits of a' thug' and Peppa Pig make people laugh, peppa Pig's an act of subculture rebellion.

Chen Nian

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Corals are facing unprecedented declines due to climate change, motivating researchers to understand molecular basis of their thermal tolerance, how they complete their life cycle, and interactions with algae that live inside them, our ability to understand how specific genes contribute to these traits in corals is held back by the lack of methods to test how a particular gene functions in corals.

Phillip Cleves

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We intended this paper to serve as a humble blueprint for how researchers can use this technology to study the functions of coral genes, we are currently conducting experiments investigating how specific genes regulate coral skeletal formation, or calcification, for example. However, we expect this technique could be useful to identify genes involved in many other ecologically important traits such as thermal tolerance or coral bleaching.

Marie Strader

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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