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

They also looked at phylogenetic diversity, a measure that reflects the evolutionary differences between species and can capture traits including behaviors like bird songs, migratory propensities and foraging and eating styles.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee