prone
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Damaged peatland is also "much more prone to erosion" leading to "peat cliffs" where "all the peat around it has been slowly eroded away by wind and rain right down to bedrock".
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
A lot of that time has been spent figuring out how to boost a category lashed by shifts in spending and consumers being less prone to buy brews.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Climate-financing for these countries include loans for renewable energy projects, technical advice on dealing with impacts of climate change and projects that build resilience in areas prone to natural disasters.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
It’s not just Wall Street, either: a working paper last year, studying a large online auction platform in the Netherlands, came away with an estimate that 21% of bidders are prone to round-number bias.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
For the first fifteen miles the road climbs through a desert landscape almost devoid of settlement and prone to fog.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing prone
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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Nothing But the Truth
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