tendencies

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This concern has led the Electronic Privacy Information Center to draft legislation around chatbot safety for teenagers, a population particularly vulnerable to the sycophantic tendencies of these tools.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Our harmonic tendencies were nowhere near as complex, but they were rapidly becoming more sophisticated thanks to our exposure to such great improvisers as Miles!

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Literature cannot topple an authoritarian regime on its own, but it can encourage people to reflect on authoritarian tendencies and what that can mean for their own lives.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

"Individuals with prominent emotional eating tendencies may require additional behavioral or psychological support."

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell