inclination
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Three regional Fed presidents dissented at April’s policy meeting, pushing to remove the Fed statement’s “easing bias”—the language that signals the committee’s inclination toward rate cuts.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
She added, “Are we doing enough to protect ourselves? I don’t know the answer to that. And so my inclination would be to say probably not.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Instead, get the AI to compare the pros and cons of your go-to path with an option that is the opposite of your usual inclination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
While the natural inclination is to draw comparisons to the 1970s – the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and the Iranian revolution of 1979 – the strategists say they don’t quite fit.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
“Well, he still needs to know. In case he has any inclination of patching things up with her. For the sake of Senator Whitworth’s career.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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