affinity

The enzyme responsible for making sorbitol has a relatively low affinity for glucose.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Yet despite his affinity for Wallace, none of Randolph’s waxing poetry turns false in the wash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

This past school year, Lee’s affinity for finance secured him a spot as the youngest member on his high school’s personal-finance team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Lawrences visceral feel for the mechanics and capabilities of the calutrons matched the mysterious affinity he had always shown for the cyclotrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Mr. Lloyd isn’t the first musician to explore affinities between jazz and Indian music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

It showed binding affinities of −8.6 kcal/mol with AChE and −8.7 kcal/mol with BChE, meaning it attached more strongly to both enzymes than other compounds tested, including Succinic acid.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond