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  • noun Plural form of extrovert.

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Examples

  • (link) The definition of extroverts is that they batten on the energy of being around others, sort of like vampires: introverts, on the other hand, feel drained by it.

    mroctober: Breach mroctober 2010

  • Are there any significant chemical and structural differences between the brains of individuals that have been identified as extroverts and individuals who have been identified as introverts?

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

  • Brookhiser, a biographer of several presidents, suggests that the personalities of most leaders fall into one of several types — "extroverts" like Truman, "ringmasters" like Franklin Roosevelt, or "scholars" like Jefferson.

    Close Up: George W. Bush 2004

  • Brookhiser, a biographer of several presidents, suggests that the personalities of most leaders fall into one of several types — "extroverts" like Truman, "ringmasters" like Franklin Roosevelt, or "scholars" like Jefferson.

    Close Up: George W. Bush 2004

  • Readers have put up some great clarifications and excellent suggestions on ways for introverts and extroverts to survive at conferences.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » April 2010

  • Yet that's too simplistic an explanation, even though studies show that the powerful are the best liars, partly because they're extroverts and extroverts lie better than introverts and persist in their lies longer.

    Pamela Meyer: Seven Big Lies About Lying Pamela Meyer 2011

  • We should stop thinking that average family income and the income of the median family have anything to do with one another, or that enthusiastic and normal users of communications tools are doing similar things, or that extroverts should be only moderately more connected than normal people.

    Learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers | Edge question 2011

  • Yet that's too simplistic an explanation, even though studies show that the powerful are the best liars, partly because they're extroverts and extroverts lie better than introverts and persist in their lies longer.

    Pamela Meyer: Seven Big Lies About Lying Pamela Meyer 2011

  • Yet that's too simplistic an explanation, even though studies show that the powerful are the best liars, partly because they're extroverts and extroverts lie better than introverts and persist in their lies longer.

    Pamela Meyer: Seven Big Lies About Lying Pamela Meyer 2011

  • Yet that's too simplistic an explanation, even though studies show that the powerful are the best liars, partly because they're extroverts and extroverts lie better than introverts and persist in their lies longer.

    Pamela Meyer: Seven Big Lies About Lying Pamela Meyer 2011

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