propensity
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They devoted most of their appeal to arguing that the court should take up the case because judges are divided on when propensity evidence should be excluded.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
Mr. Schmidt exemplifies the propensity among a few tech titans to pretend they’d never urged anyone to panic about a coming climate apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Sabastian Sawe has always had a propensity to surprise.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Grant has been a well-established critic of the Fed’s propensity to tolerate inflation for some time and in particular he condemns the purchasing power that has been lost since 2020, because of the Fed’s policies.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
During most of its life, a star is in an uneasy equilibrium: the propensity to collapse under its own gravity is balanced by the energy that comes from the fusing hydrogen in its center.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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