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
