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gravitate

[grav-i-teyt] / ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt /


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“Same as music, I always gravitate to music that helps you think. We live in a world filled with millions of distractions and a combination of things that block your thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

As far as quality goes, individual investors have a preference: They gravitate toward stocks with small market capitalizations, volatile returns and high valuations relative to fundamentals like earnings and sales growth.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

But the brand struggled with a small lineup, especially in the U.S., where buyers primarily gravitate to SUVs and trucks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

"He's a magnet, people just gravitate towards him," Maria says.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

Even the members of various Xhosa tribes would gravitate together, such as amaMpondo with amaMpondo, and so on.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

That intentional crossover between music and comedy is part of why Bird gravitates to Largo.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

When volatility rises, capital gravitates toward systems that can contain it.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

Pappano, whose parents were Italian immigrants, gravitates naturally toward the works of that tradition.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2024

Lately Gogol has started to notice a trend: now that they inhabit this world of couples, dinner party small talk gravitates to the naming of children.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Aside from options, the retail cohort has also gravitated toward another product with embedded leverage: Leveraged exchange-traded funds.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

During casting workshops, he and Bird naturally gravitated toward each other.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

It’s the first non-Asian origin institutional ceramic I’ve gotten to work with in my career, which is the reason that I gravitated toward it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

He gravitated to art classes in school and said that, by age 11, he had decided to become an artist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

I’d made a handful of instant friends during the summer program, and many of us gravitated toward the center during our free time.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He noted that more buyers are gravitating toward smaller watchmakers — sending prices higher for pieces made by brands like F.P.

From MarketWatch Jun. 13, 2026

Investors instead have been gravitating to what Morgan Stanley analyst Joe Moore described as “secondary and tertiary AI beneficiaries” that are also benefiting from the booming investment cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

They toyed with “M. Butterfly,” the masterpiece that earned Hwang his Tony, but kept gravitating toward “Flower Drum Song.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2026

The company hopes to capture higher-margin sales and appeal to younger consumers, who are gravitating toward customized, colorful drinks as an affordable indulgence.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

Each of them always gravitating toward the other.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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