gravitate
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The Hill has long touted itself as non-partisan and Stirewalt hopes users will gravitate to the subscription version to become better informed about legislative and political issues and not reaffirm their existing opinions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But the brand struggled with a small lineup, especially in the U.S., where buyers primarily gravitate to SUVs and trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
"He's a magnet, people just gravitate towards him," Maria says.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
A handful of the hyper-rich gravitate toward Lilly Pulitzer to give themselves a blue-blood look.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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But she still fears people "make assumptions" based on her accent so at networking events she gravitates towards others with a Welsh accent.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
When volatility rises, capital gravitates toward systems that can contain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
She gravitates toward “super banda” outfits, shiny shirts with floral prints worn over jorts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Winston, at normal times the kind of person who gravitates to the outer edge of any kind of scrimmage, shoved, butted, squirmed his way forward into the heart of the crowd.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
And yet she began as a professional violist, and gravitated to singing professionally only in her late 20s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
Aside from options, the retail cohort has also gravitated toward another product with embedded leverage: Leveraged exchange-traded funds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Boaz saw the lion’s eyes train on the small light in his hand, in the way that a cat gravitated toward anything small and shiny.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
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
They toyed with “M. Butterfly,” the masterpiece that earned Hwang his Tony, but kept gravitating toward “Flower Drum Song.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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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