propensity

There’s also a propensity in our culture to believe in some superhuman aspect of genius, which I think your documentary gets at very well.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

This propensity for attention-grabbing was certainly in full effect at Bill Pay’s official premiere.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

It also papers over how homeowners may be bringing certain attributes to the process that make it more likely that they’ll build wealth, like higher incomes and a propensity to save.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

My mom, who also had a propensity for hair that could double as armor, often joked we should bury her with a six-pack of Diet Coke and a bottle of hair spray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Jefferson sold several young men with a propensity for running away,” Monticello historian Lucia Stanton explains, “in accordance with his policy of ridding his domain of disruptive elements.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The upshot is that equity wealth is increasingly available to fund spending among households with higher marginal propensities to consume.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

I’m still the same person with the same propensities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The authors say that the study cannot disentangle the mechanisms driving the difference in the propensities to attend to social information.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024

“He didn’t seem like a violent guy whatsoever. There were no dangerous propensities that would stick out. That’s why I was pretty shocked to see it was him doing that. Definitely completely out of character.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, hereditary propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, which place our survival in some question.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan