gravitate
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As far as quality goes, individual investors have a preference: They gravitate toward stocks with small market capitalizations, volatile returns and high valuations relative to fundamentals like earnings and sales growth.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
“We gravitate towards what we know as home emotionally.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Retailers watch carefully as consumers might gravitate to a “ $90 backpack versus that $30 backpack,” said Matthews, the NRF economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
"He's a magnet, people just gravitate towards him," Maria says.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
My parents, Garrett, and I gravitate outside as well, all of us standing, strangely, looking to one another for some kind of guidance, or at least validation that this is actually happening.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Gill gravitates toward old Punjabi music — the folk songs and ballads of artists like Kuldeep Manak and Yamla Jatt, whose music carries within it the myths, legends, and rural views of Punjab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
When volatility rises, capital gravitates toward systems that can contain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Pappano, whose parents were Italian immigrants, gravitates naturally toward the works of that tradition.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Lately Gogol has started to notice a trend: now that they inhabit this world of couples, dinner party small talk gravitates to the naming of children.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Weist has repeatedly gravitated toward systems that most people encounter only indirectly, transforming her research processes into subjects of aesthetic and political investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
But many customers gravitated toward the breaded shrimp, and executives didn’t want to disappoint them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
GLP-1 users, she added, have also gravitated toward fiber to help deal with constipation, a common side effect of those medications.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
He also gravitated toward independent YouTube artists who uploaded their raw compositions online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Bom and raised in a family that was culturally varied, 1 innately gravitated to the rhythms of the world.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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The Mark Taper Forum had to suspend programming for more than a year, smaller companies still in operation are producing fewer shows, and producers everywhere are gravitating toward the bankably familiar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
He noted that more buyers are gravitating toward smaller watchmakers — sending prices higher for pieces made by brands like F.P.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
Investors instead have been gravitating to what Morgan Stanley analyst Joe Moore described as “secondary and tertiary AI beneficiaries” that are also benefiting from the booming investment cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The company hopes to capture higher-margin sales and appeal to younger consumers, who are gravitating toward customized, colorful drinks as an affordable indulgence.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Maybe it was because I was only twelve years old when I started high school, but I could already feel some of my friends gravitating in a different direction.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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