affinity

The enzyme responsible for making sorbitol has a relatively low affinity for glucose.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

While “Buddy” represents Kelly’s first theatrically released project, his affinity for parodying familiar media to unsettling ends first received mainstream attention with 2014’s “Too Many Cooks,” a short film for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

He is also an actor, and in both plays he evinces a natural affinity for creating complex characters that afford rich opportunities for the performers who portray them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

But in all these cases, there is a correlation that has to do with affinity, sensibility, and ability.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Against the backdrop of the impending presidential election—cue laughter at references to Hillary Clinton’s inevitable win—their affinities and hopes emerge and diverge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

What joined them together, I think, were kind of dark affinities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

She was touched, sitting across from him in a cafe and feeling between them the warm affinities of something shared.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie