How to Use attitudinal in a Sentence

attitudinal

adjective
  • The data gives us a split attitudinal screen.
    — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Boberg suggests that attitudinal factors play a role in the choice between the two.
    — Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Geese owes an attitudinal debt to the punk pioneers the Stooges.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • And that makes sense because, as their name suggests, the Struts are all about attitudinal swagger.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The direction had less to do with trends in apparel than a major attitudinal shift.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • This identity may be more attitudinal than historic.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • As a result of these attitudinal changes, interpersonal conflict is on the rise.
    — Candice Gottlieb-Clark, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Thorne called for an attitudinal change towards disability to begin with.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Your focus must be on attitudinal change, led by relationship and behavioral change.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • There began to become a real attitudinal shift in the leadership of the community that just said, look, enough’s enough.
    — Terena Bell, Washington Post, 27 July 2017
  • The markers are less sartorial than attitudinal, something in the carriage.
    — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In some cases, this leaves research to tackle the attitudinal and motivational viewpoints of the consumer.
    — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Beyond the riot, opinions on the standard-bearers split each party along demographic and attitudinal lines.
    — Sofi Sinozich, ABC News, 3 May 2022
  • Then there’s the attitudinal difference between the two presidents.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Holland said changes on the blue line will be made through a combination of attitudinal shifts and personnel reconfiguration.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Sonic Youth fans will be pleased to hear the elements of scuzz noise and high-art primitivism of that band injected into attitudinal riffs with sing-along charm of Talon's song.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Disabled people face barriers that are physical, not just emotional or attitudinal.
    — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • This philosophy has echoes in the James–Lange theory of emotions, which holds that behavioral change proceeds attitudinal change.
    — Ron Carucci, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Wasserman said that Biden's success in the suburbs is likely due to both attitudinal change in the past four years and the exodus of Black voters nationwide from cities to suburbs.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Research has found no significant attitudinal biases as a result of response rate differences.
    — ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The band’s first three albums showed an impressive ability to metabolize musical styles and eras, but even more dazzling was the attitudinal tap dance that Healy performed in his lyrics.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • In its day, the group was at the vanguard of hip-hop’s progressive wing, an exquisite balance of philosophical and attitudinal, melodic inventiveness and subwoofer thump.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2016
  • This means there could be less identity and attitudinal cohesiveness within this category, compared with the other two categories.
    — Alastair Iain Johnston, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • The actor persuades you to drop your guard and let the man’s unique, if nonetheless a bit bizarre, means of communication take you by the hand and lead you to hitherto unexpected emotional and attitudinal places.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
  • They're derived from the largest combination of attitudinal and behavioral data ever assembled for brand analysis.
    — Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The real crime that night was that no amount of hard work, public service or attitudinal fortitude has spared this one man, raised by a domestic-servant widow in poverty, from being humiliated for the color of his skin.
    — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Abena is a fantastic performer, shooting Adenikeh’s cultural-ladder-climbing through with a kind of physical and attitudinal canniness.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Galdámez and Robles realized that the biggest impediment to Salvadorans who wished to work in call centers was attitudinal, not linguistic.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Giving all these obvious bits of business a welcome kick is some very funny dialogue, especially for the devilish Dewey, whose repartee deflates stuffy adults or attitudinal kids with equal snap.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This attitudinal change was anticipated centuries earlier by Aristotle’s surmise that the curved shadow of a lunar eclipse is that of a spherical Earth.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017

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