prone
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“I don’t think this is a rally to really trust,” Melson said, noting that month-end and quarter-end periods can also be prone to exaggerated moves.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Wigler noted that the promise of hitting goals fast with AI tempts tech start-up teams already prone to long workdays to lose track of time and stay on the job even deeper into the night.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
The small-cap benchmark has been a canary in a coal mine ahead of U.S. recessions, but one also prone to dying of natural causes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
This approach can be slow, expensive, and prone to missing rare but important molecules hidden among more abundant ones.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026
Its massive arm stretched toward the prone figures, and I felt my heart drop.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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