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[ verb ] have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
Examples "She tends to be nervous before her lectures" "These dresses run small" "He inclined to corpulence" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy of the bristles . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)However , even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming , at_least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Schnabel 's emphasis on structural clarity , his innate rhythmic vibrancy , and impetuous intensity all tend to stamp his reading as a symphonic one . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The race_problem has tended to obscure other , less emotional , issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)In agriculture , for_example , despite the advances in biology , elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster . Related terms be take_kindly_to gravitate suffer inclination leaning inclination |
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[ verb ] exhibit an inclination or tendency
Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution,...)The recent history of the Dominican_Republic is an almost classical study of the way in_which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive . Since rococo music tends to be pretty and elegant above_all , it can seem rather vacuous to twentieth-century ears that have grown accustomed_to the stress and dissonances of composers from Beethoven to Boulez . (The New York Times...)Mr._Verreau began shakily , with a voice that tended toward an unpleasant whiteness when pushed beyond middle volume . (Schuyler Cammann, "The Magic Square of Three in...)Scholars made numbered sets of as_many things as possible in Nature , or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things , in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical , and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries . Related terms think trust lower attend garden take_kindly_to shepherd attendant inclination |
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