inclination
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“Upon encountering humans, the snakes’ first inclination is to slink away, but they will strike if suddenly disturbed or cornered,” a 1991 Times report said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
While the natural inclination is to draw comparisons to the 1970s – the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and the Iranian revolution of 1979 – the strategists say they don’t quite fit.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
Feeling more human is strongly correlated with higher job satisfaction, greater engagement with work, better relationships with colleagues and less inclination to leave a job, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
On this week’s Amicus podcast, he explained to Dahlia Lithwick that the inclination to fetishize that which can be justified legally has a way of opening the door to atrocities that cannot be tolerated.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
While many of my comrades thought we should disavow those leaders, my inclination was to reach out to them.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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