proneness
Example Sentences
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"We find it highly unlikely that segmented filamentous bacteria is the only gut microbe capable of impacting the phenotype of alveolar macrophages, and consequently, proneness to respiratory virus infection," Gewirtz said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2019
Fitness remains a concern for the 34-year-old, with his combative style hardly conducive to a player of such injury proneness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2016
Tragedy has become the representation of vice and sin, with a proneness for their foulest entanglements.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
