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gravitate

[grav-i-tayt] / ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt /


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Retailers weren’t sure whether customers would gravitate to their products such as clothes or hardware supplies through the app, DoorDash’s Hannon said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It strikes me that the people who gravitate toward these bots not only feel lonely but also are actively excluded from circles of support.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“If every movie is so amazing, five stars on Letterboxd every time, those people you’re not going to want to gravitate towards,” Hillard added.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

It also may offer a glimpse of where the U.S. might be headed if investors continue to increasingly gravitate toward these leveraged products, said Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

“I can’t be sure. They gravitate toward type.”

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

Some nod to what’s happening in America, such as when Carrie discovers the school library and gravitates straight to books that have been banned from classrooms and community libraries across the country.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

But she still fears people "make assumptions" based on her accent so at networking events she gravitates towards others with a Welsh accent.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Frick gravitates toward books about people “who thought their life was going to follow a certain script, and then something shifts and the script changes,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She wrote her dissertation about serial killers decades ago, and as an author gravitates to storytelling about marginalized women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

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

“I’ve always gravitated toward really strategic inflection points of industries,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

However, PepsiCo’s stock is down around 10.6% so far this year, as inflation-battered shoppers have recalibrated their snack budgets and gravitated toward cheaper private-label brands.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

I had gravitated to the color like a moth to light, seeking the dopamine hit of its glow, as if by osmosis I could absorb and become it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

And yet she began as a professional violist, and gravitated to singing professionally only in her late 20s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Being useful made him swell with pride, and he always gravitated back to me because I praised him when he did things right and was patient when he got them wrong.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Lately, Skarsgård seems to be doing the same, gravitating toward roles that, at their core, interrogate the impact his looks have on other people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Investors have been gravitating back toward parts of the stock market that are “less reliant on lower rates,” said Kourkafas.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

“People are gravitating to people that they trust,” Hillard said.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, masked flower bearers started to appear, gravitating towards the scene of the incident and laying vibrant bouquets at the base of what has now been dubbed the Justice Tree.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Maybe it was because I was only twelve years old when I started high school, but I could already feel some of my friends gravitating in a different direction.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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