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The bad habit is also common in school, politics and business.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Because this country has a bad habit of forgetting.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

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

I am sitting there, looking at my dad while he chews at the skin around his right thumbnail, a bad habit he picked up around the time my mom got sick.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe




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