propensity

Alpha-ketoacids drew their attention because of “their stability in water and their propensity to form carbon-carbon bonds, the skeleton of biology,” Springsteen said.

But, van Elk says, this propensity can cause us to sense the presence of another even when we’re alone.

Along the way, IBM says it expects to achieve exponentially improving “quantum volume,” an invented measure that factors in a processor’s propensity for operational errors.

Content that has the propensity to create specific harm will be removed, whereas tweets that mischaracterize or represent general harm will be labeled as such.

Yu and colleagues investigated whether elite controllers have a propensity for steering the virus to heterochromatin.

He also has a propensity to use clanking words when he could have used simpler ones.

McAndrews agreed that the androgenic hormone pill would be problematic for those with a genetic propensity for ADA.

Instead there was the emergence of a Tea Party movement that brought many traditionally low-propensity voters to the polls.

The focus is on “low-propensity voters who will not show up unless someone knocks on their door,” says Donnelly.

The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding.

Avoid a loquacious propensity; you should never occupy more than your share of the time, or more than is agreeable to others.

Then it was that the insular propensity grew impudent and headstrong, and soon became a power in the land.

It was only by persevering effort that I convinced him his church-going propensity could not be allowed.

It was a propensity which received frequent checks from those around her.

It is no new propensity of animal nature, to find pleasure from the combination of a stimulant, and a sedative.