proclivity
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Fans who attended those gigs will know that Ridings hasn't completely abandoned her proclivity for a heartbroken love song.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Growing up in Brighton Beach, Sedaka exhibited a musical proclivity at an early age, earning a piano scholarship to Juilliard’s children’s division when he was 8 years old.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The most notable stock-market research over the weekend comes from academia, where researchers studied those rascals in Congress and their proclivity to trade.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025
The two men differ in build, temperament, and scholarly proclivity, but they pressed their faces to the windows with identical enthusiasm.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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