propensity
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Galperin is similarly skeptical of any potential features that could meaningfully curb stalking: “It is not salvageable technology because of just the sheer scale of propensity to abuse.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Announcing that she "wants it all" before these championships, Hunt, even in these early stages of her senior career, has demonstrated a propensity to thrive on major stages, and under ever-increasing expectation.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
But even more central to their disagreements, Skidelsky contends, was Hayek’s propensity “to equate moral values with market values.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"It plays into features of the current dating culture, where we see this propensity towards disposability and a lack of exclusivity," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The dark circles under my eyes spoke to the rooster’s propensity for early morning announcements.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
To test this, the experimenters created several different libraries of various amino acids combinations and then screened them for two things: their solubility and secondary structure propensities.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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