tendency
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L.A. was where he had come of age, and it remained an indelible part of his life and psyche — not least in terms of its egalitarian spirit and its tendency toward the horizontal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
England explained his exile on grounds of conditioning, on a tendency to lose pace or hobble out of matches altogether.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The suit alleges that OpenAI marketed ChatGPT as reliable despite its tendency to sometimes generate dangerous misinformation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
“And in the absence of a definite statement from Iran there is a tendency to downplay comments from the U.S. administration.”
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
She was given to theatrics—Kathy called her Dramarama—and all that Austen had made the tendency worse.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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