inclination
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If you lack the expertise, time or inclination to market the property, handle repairs and maintenance, and field tenant calls, you can hire help.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s not a surprising inclination for someone who spent so much of his life teaching generations of Los Angeles artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In the 1930s and ’40s, Justice Alito explains, the Supreme Court mostly resisted any inclination to strike down Congressional legislation, which had mostly to do with New Deal economic policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Teams can still run straight through Liverpool, but Iraola showed no inclination to make a signing in that position.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Well, he still needs to know. In case he has any inclination of patching things up with her. For the sake of Senator Whitworth’s career.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
And the postmeeting press conference could be especially revealing of Warsh’s policy and style inclinations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
You can also prompt the bot to retain additional inclinations, and delete current ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Spotify Wrapped bares our souls and provides us the opportunity to see ourselves deconstructed via our musical inclinations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
The parents at home didn’t share their children’s political inclinations.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025
Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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