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Sentence count:281+13Posted:2016-07-19Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: aptitudebentdispositioninclinationleaningproclivitySimilar words: independenceindependentpresidencytenderextendeddependentagencyfrequencyMeaning: ['tendənsɪ]  n. 1. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others 2. an inclination to do something 3. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect 4. a general direction in which something tends to move. 
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91 The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
92 What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
93 Adjustment to full employment could in principle occur without any tendency towards inflation.
94 In considering the right to live issue(sentencedict.com), there is a tendency to fight shy of the emotive word of murder.
95 Excess flab causes heart disease, strokes, cancers, arthritis and a tendency to find Jo Brand funny.
96 Both criminal law and contract exhibit a tendency to convert such presumptions into irrebuttable rules of law.
97 There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point.
98 There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones.
99 Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. RONALD REAGAN 
100 This part is also characterised by minimal linguistic analysis and a tendency for barren description rather than interpretation.
101 The drawbacks of this relationship are its stolid dullness and its tendency to focus power in a small circle of people.
102 In any case, Goblins have a marked tendency to bounce so casualties are probably fewer than one might reasonably expect.
103 I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
104 He attacked the lobby system of political reporting and the increased tendency for critics to hunt as a pack.
105 That tendency, plus the high dividend yields, usually produces a strong performance.
106 Carbohydrate foods - it used to be thought all carbohydrate foods - do indeed have a tendency to produce a rebound hunger.
107 The tendency in the Council is therefore always to lean towards a choice of legal base requiring unanimous voting.
108 But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
109 Varieties and eventually species would be formed despite any tendency for interbreeding with the main body of the population in the centre.
110 The tendency to keep falling into the subjectivity trap usually brings with it a tendency to confuse goals with methods.
111 There was, however, a clearly marked tendency for this organisation to become more complex as time went on.
112 If their tendency is that they are likely or intended to stir up racial hatred, that is sufficient. 4.
113 Readings were only normal when I was walking, perhaps because of the tendency of exertion to increase body temperature.
114 However, the main drawback with this type of search engine is its tendency to catalog too much information.
115 As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome!
116 This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good, rather than the intrinsically bad.
117 Without doubt Bukharin was correct in the above, in so far as there was and is such a tendency at work within capitalism.
118 The tendency of second homes to be clustered in specific pleasant rural locations is probably the characteristic that exaggerates their significance.
119 The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities.
120 Another clue is the tendency of chemicals to react together in combinations of exact numerical ratio.
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