bad habit
Example Sentences
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Drug-trial results are driving share prices: For much of the past four years, biotech stocks had the bad habit of selling off even after the release of positive drug-trial data.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
"The future is food, not a bad habit," he tells the BBC at his warehouse in Harare.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
This is not a minor character flaw or a bad habit that only emerges once or twice in his life.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024
She called it a bad habit and that a benchmark of even 90% agreement would make more sense.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023
“Well, anyway, Yolanda mentioned that Vivian had a bad habit of leaving the door to the bathroom open when she was taking a bath.”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
