prone
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Prone to social media outbursts, grandiloquent speeches and public spats, Petro has burned through more than 60 ministers in four years.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Prone as I am to indulging our audience, it’s not just flattery to suggest that Salon readers, considered as a whole, are likely to be on the sharper side.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
Prone to drought, the state has implemented a state law limiting farmers’ access to water.
From Fox News • Nov. 28, 2021
Prone to frequent spells of dreaming, “his mind was often elsewhere,” Irving writes.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2015
Prone to nausea and stomach problems, she remembered her early years “as one continual period of throwing up.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing prone
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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Nothing But the Truth
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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