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

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

Another concern McClellan noted last week was that the market was going against the market’s seasonal tendencies during the second year of a presidential term.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

It also results in a lack of magnetic ordering, since both ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic tendencies can appear at the same time.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

He refused to accept that Ernest might have participated in Strauss’s campaign against him or engaged in any of the rumormongering about his Communist tendencies that periodically swept the Berkeley campus.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik