propensity

Example Sentences

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The judge would have to infer guilt from the fact that stories contained private information, and, he claimed, Mail journalists had a "propensity" to use unlawful methods.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“When you look at the baby boomer demographic, it is about to enter the 80s. When you are 80 and above, your propensity to require these services goes up dramatically,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

“We may have come to a bit of a turning point with less of a propensity for speculators to sell the yen,” he says.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

“And I think that billionaires have a propensity to do a lot of good, but they also have the propensity to do a lot of bad.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2026

Northeastern Indians were appalled by the European propensity to divide themselves into social classes, with those on the lower rungs of the hierarchy compelled to defer to those on the upper.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann