tendency

What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

This tendency is related to homeostasis, the process through which a system maintains a relatively stable internal state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

When someone says things are different this time, Wall Street has a tendency to be skeptical, because market trends often last longer than expected.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

There’s a tendency to think that, because one has had any success at all, be it a musical callback or a greenlit freelance piece or a short story selected for publication, that they know best.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

To my ears they sounded refined, educated; I had a tendency to mumble, and when nervous, to stutter.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

For that reason, the equations are designed to identify tendencies rather than predict an unavoidable future.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

But for Kusama, art wasn’t a path chosen for fame and fortune; art was a sublimation and a salve for her compulsive tendencies and psychotic episodes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

But he also sees the breakdown as creating some opportunities, as it leads to “a more defensive rotation” into sectors showing some technically bullish tendencies.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026

The 29-year-old’s natural tendencies are a great match for grass, though she exited in the first round here in each of the last four years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon