tendencies
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But if the Go-Backer is misused, it threatens to tear reality apart, and hot on their heels is a Thing, who has evolved into a terrifying monster with Gollum-like tendencies, obsessed with the Go-Backer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The team argues that these familiar tendencies may arise from the same deeper pattern.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Although players may enjoy this responsibility, how the team play can be swayed by individual players' natural tendencies.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But for Kusama, art wasn’t a path chosen for fame and fortune; art was a sublimation and a salve for her compulsive tendencies and psychotic episodes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
I thought he was reassuring her, because that’s what selfless people do, but now I wonder if he was repeating something he had studied; if all his Abnegation tendencies were just Erudite traits in disguise.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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