inclination

Your inclination toward dreaming, and how easily you are consumed by it, is your heart’s way of creating not just a gorgeous life for yourself, but a more rose-tinted world for everyone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

By all reports, he certainly reinforced the president’s inclination to join Israel in attacking Iran this past February.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

His perceived inclination to stem market panic earned a moniker, the “Greenspan put”—as if the Fed itself was a put option that insured investors against losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Shadows of Spielberg’s filmography loom large over “Disclosure Day”: the inclination to revisit and fictionalize childhood from “The Fabelmans,” the tests of empathy in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and, of course, all the aliens.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Kaprice taught her kids to look out for one another, even when their inclination was to squabble.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

She is, the argument goes, a poet for the moms and the mushy-hearted, for readers with no formalist inclinations, for those more interested in enjoyment than enjambment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

And the postmeeting press conference could be especially revealing of Warsh’s policy and style inclinations.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Spotify Wrapped bares our souls and provides us the opportunity to see ourselves deconstructed via our musical inclinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025

The parents at home didn’t share their children’s political inclinations.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025

Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker