tendency

Despite this lack of perfect one-to-one mapping between words and objects, mutual exclusivity has still been posited as a strong tendency in children's word learning.

What Aravind, Brody, and Fieman propose is that children have no such tendency, and instead rely on so-called "focus" signals to decide what a new word means.

For example, she has a tendency to espouse foreign-policy talking points that very much align with Kremlin propaganda, often with the help of her pal Tucker Carlson.

“This can affect the development of atherosclerotic plaques, but also the tendency for the plaques to become unstable and cause a stroke.”

The research showed that the great majority of participants displayed a strong tendency to match R with the jagged line and L with the straight line, regardless of which was presented first.