propensities
Example Sentences
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The upshot is that equity wealth is increasingly available to fund spending among households with higher marginal propensities to consume.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
I’m still the same person with the same propensities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The authors say that the study cannot disentangle the mechanisms driving the difference in the propensities to attend to social information.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
“Both the department and Police Protective League, after a period of time, get to know the hearing examiners, get to know their propensities, get to know the areas that they may be more sensitive to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
