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- noun The state or condition of being
surefooted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Down this they plunged with reckless speed; their surefootedness was a marvel in such seemingly unwieldy beasts.
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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What so many pundits see as "surefootedness" is a calculated means not to alienate confused voters and a ravenous press.
Clinton and the Gender Card: Perspectives Aarons, Morra 2007
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He climbed down with the nimble surefootedness of hill people and gingerly pulled her up.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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He climbed down with the nimble surefootedness of hill people and gingerly pulled her up.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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He climbed down with the nimble surefootedness of hill people and gingerly pulled her up.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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However "primitive" they have seemed to some critics, the Na'vi -- with their uniformly superb, sleekly blue-gleaming physiques, their weirdly infallible surefootedness, their organic connector cables, their ability to upload and download consciousness itself -- are the ultimate expression of his career-long striving to make flesh mechanical.
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He climbed down with the nimble surefootedness of hill people and gingerly pulled her up.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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However "primitive" they have seemed to some critics, the Na'vi -- with their uniformly superb, sleekly blue-gleaming physiques, their weirdly infallible surefootedness, their organic connector cables, their ability to upload and download consciousness itself -- are the ultimate expression of his career-long striving to make flesh mechanical.
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He climbed down with the nimble surefootedness of hill people and gingerly pulled her up.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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I think what you saw with the Obama campaign was an admission they do not have the footing, the surefootedness to address foreign policy issues and international relations issues and therefore, they made a choice of going with Joe Biden, which really seems an odd choice when you say here is someone, a campaign going to be run about change.
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