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
But having fuelled a bad habit in China, it now wants to promote a health food there, hoping in the process to acquire the status of Africa's blueberry capital.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
Though he yielded only one hit, the recently streaking right-hander fell back into a bad habit of being “too fine,” as manager Dave Roberts described it, with his command.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
“I see it as a collective bad habit we can help each other kick.”
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025
I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
