propensity

The government says that type of crime is often a result of peer pressure, exploitation and "adolescent impulsivity" by individuals who are still developing, as opposed to a broader propensity for crime and violence.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

There’s also a propensity in our culture to believe in some superhuman aspect of genius, which I think your documentary gets at very well.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mr. Harris highlights the Brooklyn-born comedian’s legendary propensity to walk off stage if an audience’s response peeved him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This propensity for attention-grabbing was certainly in full effect at Bill Pay’s official premiere.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Jefferson sold several young men with a propensity for running away,” Monticello historian Lucia Stanton explains, “in accordance with his policy of ridding his domain of disruptive elements.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

“Both the department and Police Protective League, after a period of time, get to know the hearing examiners, get to know their propensities, get to know the areas that they may be more sensitive to.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee