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prone
adjective as in lying down
Example Sentences
For every Holmes, there are entrepreneurs prone to stretching the truth who are celebrated instead of sitting in prison.
He advises students and job seekers to focus on trends instead of fixating on raw numbers that are prone to revisions.
Software is easier to scale and normally gets higher margins, but is also more prone to disruption than hardware, with lower barriers to entry by competitors.
Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.
Bellamy says he now often cringes looking back at the enraged footballer, banning his own team from throwing their arms up in disgust as he was so prone to do.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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