streak

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I have spotted this totalitarian streak among some of my friends who went to med school.

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Quick take

an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"

noun

a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"

noun

a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for streak.

noun

an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"

noun

a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"

noun

a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

noun

a sudden flash (as of lightning)

verb

move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"

verb

run naked in a public place

verb

mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

Example sentences

I have spotted this totalitarian streak among some of my friends who went to med school.

Those people will start blogging in no time about how "commit-streak tracking changed my life", from their barefoot standing desks.

It's interesting that a lot of the recent billion dollar internet companies have some sort of gray/black hat streak.

The libertarian streak that has long been present in American culture seems to be taking hold of more and more people.

Ask your boss to give you a one or two-week leave and give you a break from your 70 hours a week streak, and learn something that's actually new for a change.

As a fanatical user of calendaraboutnothing in the past, I'm stoked to see the streak graph on the profile page.

It's the opposite of the rebellious streak that characterized the baby boomers.

I'm perfectly willing to believe Steve Jobs had a mean streak or whatever, but you can't call it evil when someone refuses to do something no one else does either.

Googrosoft-style interviews are great for selecting people with raw intelligence, a competitive streak and some level of arrogance.

I wonder if this is just a strong contrarian streak in me, but I've always been extremely suspicious of "company culture" anywhere I've worked.

I thought this was about an employee leaving GitHub and thought "oh shit, there goes their winning streak"!On the actual post: what prevents one from using `git am` locally and then pushing the changes to GitHub?

If you feel like you have a knack for systems programming, being a good systems programmer is 1/2 the hard part of appsec; the other 1/2 is literally "taking pleasure in finding creative ways to break things", and you can find out if you have that personality streak in just a couple hours of trying attacks.