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gravitate

[grav-i-tayt] / ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt /


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Retailers weren’t sure whether customers would gravitate to their products such as clothes or hardware supplies through the app, DoorDash’s Hannon said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It strikes me that the people who gravitate toward these bots not only feel lonely but also are actively excluded from circles of support.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“If every movie is so amazing, five stars on Letterboxd every time, those people you’re not going to want to gravitate towards,” Hillard added.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The group could gravitate to another part of the room to “trade cards, sign autographs, talk a little shop,” and Freeman would somehow end up back at the Pop-A-Shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Other individual sprouts still grew on their own, but most seemed to gravitate toward the larger vine.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Even now as an adult, Tashjian said it's still difficult for her to fathom large numbers of people dying in any event, and she still gravitates toward individual anecdotes to help her understand 9/11's toll.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Frick gravitates toward books about people “who thought their life was going to follow a certain script, and then something shifts and the script changes,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

The actor, who hails from Merseyside, England, often gravitates to characters with a sense of grit, even in bigger blockbusters like “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

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

The 5-foot-11, 180-pound, even-keeled senior is a former soccer player who gravitated toward kicking, and it has paid off with a scholarship from Stanford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

He also emphasized that Target had “much more work to do” to win back consumers, who have gravitated to rivals that have been able to offer deeper discounts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Since the release of the New York-based outfit’s self-titled debut album in 2017, critics have gravitated to his work, and you might see his group’s records showing up on year-end lists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The role of the Five Nations as English allies was complicated because some Mohawks had already gravitated to Catholic missions in New France and supported the French.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

I’d made a handful of instant friends during the summer program, and many of us gravitated toward the center during our free time.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They are gravitating toward brand nostalgia and physical store experiences, trends he believes favor Gap’s brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Shell pointed out that Treasurys have recently outperformed swaps, a sign that investors are gravitating back toward the longer end of the curve.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, masked flower bearers started to appear, gravitating towards the scene of the incident and laying vibrant bouquets at the base of what has now been dubbed the Justice Tree.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

For years, I’ve found myself gravitating towards stories about neighborhood restaurants, family businesses, local farmers, and food traditions — not because they’re quaint or nostalgic, but because they’re windows into something larger.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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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