tendency
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One of the biggest challenges in treating C. difficile is its tendency to return.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
When someone says things are different this time, Wall Street has a tendency to be skeptical, because market trends often last longer than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
There’s a tendency to think that, because one has had any success at all, be it a musical callback or a greenlit freelance piece or a short story selected for publication, that they know best.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The world has a tendency to trick people.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Although players may enjoy this responsibility, how the team play can be swayed by individual players' natural tendencies.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"For translocated crocodiles, it's important there is careful release planning to manage their tendencies to return home."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
But he also sees the breakdown as creating some opportunities, as it leads to “a more defensive rotation” into sectors showing some technically bullish tendencies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Except her version of fun involves vengeance, sly righteousness and the exposure of humanity’s darker tendencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is quite possible that she did not believe in any other tendencies in humans, for while she was preternaturally alert in some directions she was completely blind in others.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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