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    Its people were forced into the role of teenagers hiding their vices and proclivities from a shadowy army of parents.  (source)
    proclivities = preferences
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    The boys on the Under 15s felt the conflict between the two worlds more acutely than their younger siblings, if only because they had spent more time in their home countries, which was borne out in the older boys' thicker accents and fondness for the native dress of their parents, proclivities that sometimes drew ridicule from the American kids at school.  (source)
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    His reign was being continued now in the person of his son, Baby Doc—a little less crafty than his father but with the same proclivity for murdering political enemies and for stealing and misappropriating foreign aid.  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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    As it turned out, however, the jury left for the night with an even lower opinion of Seth Hubbard and his proclivities.  (source)
    proclivities = tendencies
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    The ship's priest comes to mind, but he is a rheumyeyed man with a proclivity for drink.  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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    Likewise it roused his latent sentimental proclivities.  (source)
    proclivities = tendencies
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    In addition there is apparently an active proclivity for catarrh in the upper respiratory system.  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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    But Mary and Bill wanted mountain-climbing, and had already yawned their way in Dallas's wake through the English cathedrals; and May, always fair to her children, had insisted on holding the balance evenly between their athletic and artistic proclivities.  (source)
    proclivities = preferences
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    But with the self-combating proclivity of the supersensitive, an answer thereto arose in Clare's own mind, and he almost feared it.  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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    He carried himself with the same self-important air, took his new state with easy familiarity, and rejoiced in Carrie's proclivities and successes.  (source)
    proclivities = tendencies
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    Whether through careful consideration spawned by books and spirited debate over coffee at two in the morning, or simply from a natural proclivity, we must all eventually adopt a fundamental framework, some reasonably coherent system of causes and effects that will help us make sense not simply of momentous events, but of all the little actions and interactions that constitute our daily lives—be they deliberate or spontaneous, inevitable or unforeseen.†  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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    "And how splendid his chariot!" replies a neighbor, of the same proclivities.  (source)
    proclivities = preferences
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    Even my grandmother, who was ever alert for what she feared was her wayward daughter's proclivity to jump into things, was impatient with my mother to set a date for the wedding.†  (source)
    proclivity = tendency
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