tends
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The disease “then sort of migrates up and then west,” Chu said, so the West Coast tends to get the flu last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
National Institutes of Health reflects that evidence, noting that D3 tends to raise vitamin D levels more and keep them elevated for longer than D2.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
As a result, foreign money tends to leave riskier emerging market assets such as Indian equities and chase safer investments like US bonds when interest rates rise.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But that burst tends to dissipate over the course of an entire can, and that is another reason Coke suffered by comparison.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
