propensity
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Higher yields could also put more pressure on the housing market, dampening consumers’ propensity to spend, Berezin said.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
She asked Musk for a "clean slate" going forward, and that he "Try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom."
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
The central bank’s propensity for buying and holding large quantities of assets drags it into fiscal arguments where it doesn’t belong, for instance—as Mr. Warsh often points out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“Also, if there is no clinical data for a substance, and an awareness that the substance has the propensity for harm, that could make it an appropriate placement on the Category 2 list.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
During most of its life, a star is in an uneasy equilibrium: the propensity to collapse under its own gravity is balanced by the energy that comes from the fusing hydrogen in its center.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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