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gravitate

[grav-i-teyt] / ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt /


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“Same as music, I always gravitate to music that helps you think. We live in a world filled with millions of distractions and a combination of things that block your thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

But some say traders who gravitate toward these products see big swings in the underlying stocks as a feature, not a bug.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Retailers watch carefully as consumers might gravitate to a “ $90 backpack versus that $30 backpack,” said Matthews, the NRF economist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

"He's a magnet, people just gravitate towards him," Maria says.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

My parents, Garrett, and I gravitate outside as well, all of us standing, strangely, looking to one another for some kind of guidance, or at least validation that this is actually happening.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

When volatility rises, capital gravitates toward systems that can contain it.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

She gravitates to romance “to get back to that place of hopefulness, and affirm the beauty and magic and meaningfulness of life.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2025

Pappano, whose parents were Italian immigrants, gravitates naturally toward the works of that tradition.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2024

Lately Gogol has started to notice a trend: now that they inhabit this world of couples, dinner party small talk gravitates to the naming of children.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

“In this moment, we let them down. But I think altogether people gravitated toward the team because we were relatable—we represented exactly what the U.S. was today.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

It’s the first non-Asian origin institutional ceramic I’ve gotten to work with in my career, which is the reason that I gravitated toward it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

He gravitated to art classes in school and said that, by age 11, he had decided to become an artist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

GLP-1 users, she added, have also gravitated toward fiber to help deal with constipation, a common side effect of those medications.

From MarketWatch May 10, 2026

People abandoned their conversations and gravitated towards her in a murmuring swarm.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

GLP-1 users and everyone else are gravitating toward protein, fresh ingredients and cleaner labels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The Mark Taper Forum had to suspend programming for more than a year, smaller companies still in operation are producing fewer shows, and producers everywhere are gravitating toward the bankably familiar.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Consumers increasingly are gravitating away from the bone-in wings that made KFC a global success.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

The company hopes to capture higher-margin sales and appeal to younger consumers, who are gravitating toward customized, colorful drinks as an affordable indulgence.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

But with guidance, as they developed self-confidence and maturity, they moved on to other jobs, gravitating toward those that would suit their own interests and skills.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry




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