gravitate
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I think free agents gravitate toward that in general.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
The group could gravitate to another part of the room to “trade cards, sign autographs, talk a little shop,” and Freeman would somehow end up back at the Pop-A-Shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Most viewers who gravitate to this “Hollywood Crime Story” installment will know something of American film history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
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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
They are the kinds of stocks Warren Buffett External link gravitates toward.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
The actor, who hails from Merseyside, England, often gravitates to characters with a sense of grit, even in bigger blockbusters like “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Winston, at normal times the kind of person who gravitates to the outer edge of any kind of scrimmage, shoved, butted, squirmed his way forward into the heart of the crowd.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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He also emphasized that Target had “much more work to do” to win back consumers, who have gravitated to rivals that have been able to offer deeper discounts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Instead, I gravitated toward a pile of thin-necked yellow summer squash.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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
Aside from options, the retail cohort has also gravitated toward another product with embedded leverage: Leveraged exchange-traded funds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Looking back now, I think I gravitated toward David because, like me, he was different.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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It’s a private school in one of the snowiest cities in the country at a moment when students are gravitating toward public institutions in the Sunbelt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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
“Women are gravitating to the style because it provides a more tailored look while remaining casual and comfortable. They also pair well with the more relaxed, wide-leg pants and jeans that are popular.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
For years, I’ve found myself gravitating towards stories about neighborhood restaurants, family businesses, local farmers, and food traditions — not because they’re quaint or nostalgic, but because they’re windows into something larger.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
But if his first fourteen years hadn’t been rooted in a healthy diet of education and the richness of his heritage, Malcolm wouldn’t have found himself gravitating to the prison libraries after he was incarcerated.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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