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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)
tendency
/ˈtɛndənsi/
noun
quality that something happens or someone behaves in a particular way
- “Speakers have a natural tendency to cut down on words.”Tatoeba
- “It seems a tendency that more industrialized societies create science fiction.”Tatoeba
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)