propensities

Example Sentences

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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

If a dog has "vicious propensities," the owner is assumed to share in this projected violence, both legally and generally in public perception.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2022

How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë