propensity
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"It plays into features of the current dating culture, where we see this propensity towards disposability and a lack of exclusivity," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
They devoted most of their appeal to arguing that the court should take up the case because judges are divided on when propensity evidence should be excluded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
As a result of his propensity for drawing walks, Murakami has an on-base percentage of .375, the highest on the White Sox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Grant has been a well-established critic of the Fed’s propensity to tolerate inflation for some time and in particular he condemns the purchasing power that has been lost since 2020, because of the Fed’s policies.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
During most of its life, a star is in an uneasy equilibrium: the propensity to collapse under its own gravity is balanced by the energy that comes from the fusing hydrogen in its center.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
“Both the department and Police Protective League, after a period of time, get to know the hearing examiners, get to know their propensities, get to know the areas that they may be more sensitive to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
To test this, the experimenters created several different libraries of various amino acids combinations and then screened them for two things: their solubility and secondary structure propensities.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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
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