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Alpha-ketoacids drew their attention because of “their stability in water and their propensity to form carbon-carbon bonds, the skeleton of biology,” Springsteen said.

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But, van Elk says, this propensity can cause us to sense the presence of another even when we’re alone.

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Along the way, IBM says it expects to achieve exponentially improving “quantum volume,” an invented measure that factors in a processor’s propensity for operational errors.

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Content that has the propensity to create specific harm will be removed, whereas tweets that mischaracterize or represent general harm will be labeled as such.

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Yu and colleagues investigated whether elite controllers have a propensity for steering the virus to heterochromatin.

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Avoid a loquacious propensity; you should never occupy more than your share of the time, or more than is agreeable to others.

THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY

Then it was that the insular propensity grew impudent and headstrong, and soon became a power in the land.

A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN

It was only by persevering effort that I convinced him his church-going propensity could not be allowed.

MINNIE'S PET DOGMADELINE LESLIE

It was a propensity which received frequent checks from those around her.

A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE

It is no new propensity of animal nature, to find pleasure from the combination of a stimulant, and a sedative.