penchant
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Bosko had a penchant for leaping onto his shoulder.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Yet its penchant for letting borrowers pay interest on their loans with noncash IOUs could set the fund up for trouble if the lending environment deteriorates.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
And by pivoting away from cinema’s recent penchant for celebrity commentary to face the stripped-down human truth, “Mother Mary” is a reinvention fit for a superstar.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
But the philosophers themselves disliked this penchant for telling tales and insisted upon their own, much plainer history.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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