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“Now, fraud can be isolated bad actors, or it could be economic conditions that increase the propensity towards bad acting, if you like,” he said.

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In India, too, politicians’ children have a propensity to become fabulously wealthy.

Qubits are sensitive to environmental noise or any disturbances at the atomic level, which is why quantum computers have a propensity for errors.

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And against Illinois, that propensity for allowing explosive plays came back to bite USC in a brutal loss.

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“It’s a little thing called state sovereignty, but given the President’s propensity to violate the Constitution, it’s unsurprising that he’s unfamiliar with it.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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