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propensity

[pruh-pen-si-tee] / prəˈpɛn sɪ ti /


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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

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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