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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

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

The shy 9-year-old Nathan Negrete doesn’t naturally gravitate toward the spotlight, but as Negrete stood with Weston McKennie in front of the roaring 74,904 fans at SoFi Stadium, he smiled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

“It’s a bad sign,” said Scythe Hideyoshi, “when our young hopefuls gravitate so openly to the enemy.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

Gill gravitates toward old Punjabi music — the folk songs and ballads of artists like Kuldeep Manak and Yamla Jatt, whose music carries within it the myths, legends, and rural views of Punjab.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

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

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

“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

Weist has repeatedly gravitated toward systems that most people encounter only indirectly, transforming her research processes into subjects of aesthetic and political investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

I’d made a handful of instant friends during the summer program, and many of us gravitated toward the center during our free time.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Shell pointed out that Treasurys have recently outperformed swaps, a sign that investors are gravitating back toward the longer end of the curve.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 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

“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

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