penchant
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But “Never Be the Same” arrives at a moment when Thompson’s penchant for crafting songs that carry a late-’50s structural DNA could serve him well.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
Yet its penchant for letting borrowers pay interest on their loans with noncash IOUs could set the fund up for trouble if the lending environment deteriorates.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The supermodel took her penchant for extravagant Halloween costumes to the Met Gala, where she dressed as one of the many marble statues gracing the museum's halls.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Daisy, whose backstory includes, in the first episode, a brief glimpse of Elisabeth Moss’ June, certainly upsets things, most often by reacting to Gilead’s penchant for public atrocities the way a non-sociopath outsider would.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He had a penchant for leaping at her whenever she went by with the breakfast tray.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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