tendency

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Essiedu says there can be a tendency to view miscarriage only as a physical issue.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

In his seminal work on the impact of automation on jobs, MIT economist David Autor noted the tendency of headlines to overstate the extent of job losses from new technology.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

This tendency has been documented over the years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

That pattern echoes what economists call skills-biased technological change: the tendency of some new technologies to hollow out routine work while complementing jobs held by more highly educated workers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

This tendency is what led Frederick Douglass to declare that “power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander