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She has a propensity for getting into trouble, always finding herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.propensity = tendency or inclination
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As a group, the people with a family history of heart disease have a higher propensity to develop the condition themselves.propensity = tendency
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If, for an extreme example, cleft palates showed up in every litter—meaning pups that had to be put down—you knew that the sire carried a propensity toward cleft palate.† (source)
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The Count had been about to remark on Mishka's propensity for getting into scrapes and his love of pacing, but she had just described his old friend better than he ever had.† (source)
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Over the years, Sylvie had programmed herself to ignore Kohler's bizarre mood swings and eccentricities-his silent treatments, his unnerving propensity to secretly film meetings with his wheelchair's porta-video.† (source)
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He was laughing now, and he knew she had a sense of humor, and she knew he did, too, and somehow he made her feel safe, made her trust that he would never bring it up again, that this terrible thing she said would remain betWeen them, that they both understood mistakes are made by all and that they should, if everyone is acknowledging our common humanity, our common frailty and propensity for sounding and looking ridiculous a thousand times a day, that these mistakes should be allowed to be forgotten.† (source)
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That he knew about her propensities as a hacker was serious.† (source)
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Adam's tough, daring reputation was rivaled only by his propensity for kindness.† (source)
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A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions.† (source)
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That boy has an unnatural propensity for being wherever there's trouble.† (source)
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But physical and moral causes may nourish their different propensities and inclinations.† (source)
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Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.† (source)
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It is the idea that particular talents and propensities in the human soul are reflected in or perhaps even caused by protuberances and depressions in the shape of the skull.† (source)
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Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child's propensity to commit crime.† (source)
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And it was likewise worthwhile listening to Settembrini talk about himself, declaring that he, the grandson Lodovico, had united the propensities of his two immediate forebears—the political bent of his grandfather and the humanistic bent of his father—by becoming a man of letters, a free-lance writer.† (source)
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Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon, and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments, it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all.† (source)
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