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gravitate

[grav-i-tayt] / ˈgræv ɪˌteɪt /


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The analysts’ findings, they said, indicated that the AI models “consistently gravitate toward scale, value, convenience and brand familiarity.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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

Taking a nonjudgmental “everyone is welcome” stance while maintaining Orthodox observance and palpably expressed faith in God, Chabad attracts many Jews who gravitate to its aura of authenticity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

A handful of the hyper-rich gravitate toward Lilly Pulitzer to give themselves a blue-blood look.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 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

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

Since the release of the New York-based outfit’s self-titled debut album in 2017, critics have gravitated to his work, and you might see his group’s records showing up on year-end lists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The role of the Five Nations as English allies was complicated because some Mohawks had already gravitated to Catholic missions in New France and supported the French.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

Boaz saw the lion’s eyes train on the small light in his hand, in the way that a cat gravitated toward anything small and shiny.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

So-called autocallable ETFs have emerged as a fast-growing area within the booming ETF industry, where investors are increasingly gravitating toward more complicated, actively managed products, some of which feature derivatives like options and swaps.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“In that context, people are gravitating towards the largest players in the industry and looking at us to provide the antidotes to this development in AI,” Arora said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Without electrical forces, there would no longer be things in the universe—merely diffuse clouds of electrons, protons and neutrons, and gravitating spheres of elementary particles, the featureless remnants of worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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