proclivity
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Investors don’t currently have large positions in them, so they have wiggle room in their portfolios to take a chance on a few more shares—and they have recently shown the proclivity to do that.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
The battle group’s youngest members are showing a proclivity for using new tech to solve problems; one soldier recently 3-D-printed a replacement for a broken fuse box cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Fans who attended those gigs will know that Ridings hasn't completely abandoned her proclivity for a heartbroken love song.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
The most notable stock-market research over the weekend comes from academia, where researchers studied those rascals in Congress and their proclivity to trade.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
The two men differ in build, temperament, and scholarly proclivity, but they pressed their faces to the windows with identical enthusiasm.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Americans have been resistant to changing their protein-consuming proclivities in the face of higher prices, but that’s slowly changing, said Earnest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In this world, the bizarre proclivities of one man can disturb the peace and rattle markets.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
For all of Arden’s showman proclivities, his passion for innovative design and kinetic sceneography, he never loses sight of a work’s beating heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
It added that allegations the company had knowingly employed "individuals with proclivities or histories towards illegal... conduct" were "similarly without basis".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
He hadn’t asked Rishi to give up comics from a sense of arrogance or pride or feeling ashamed of his oldest son’s artistic proclivities.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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