gravitating

Example Sentences

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“Especially when people are uncertain,” Cialdini told me, “they go for authority, gravitating to the person with confidence and credentials.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 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

After a string of weak results, the retailer said more shoppers are gravitating to its refreshed products and stores.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

That evening the Negroes in Hampton stayed in the cocoon of our segregated neighborhoods, gravitating to our churches to try to make sense of our collective tragedy.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson