Collocations withtendency
These are words often used in combination withtendency.
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aggressive tendency
As indicated earlier, it has been demonstrated that girls are more likely than boys to express their aggressive tendencies in relational terms.
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central tendency
This comparison can be quantified using a statistical measure of central tendency and dispersion.
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dangerous tendency
Second, there is a dangerous tendency to think (when anyone is short of ideas) that we need more information, more definitions of roles, above all more statistics, more data.
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destructive tendency
Here we need to warn against the destructive tendency in our times ofjudging patterns prematurely using strict criteria such as efficiency, cost reduction, and streamlining.
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disturbing tendency
Possession cases were unstable and unpredictable, and the antics of adolescent demoniacs had a disturbing tendency to invert and overturn the established age, gender, and social hierarchy.
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general tendency
However, we saw that considerations of register may override this general tendency.
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growing tendency
It is complicated to make an assumption of the growing tendency of the small dilatations.
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increasing tendency
Undoubtedly, they are on the rise, due to the increasing tendency to perform caesarean sections.
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innate tendency
It characterizes the innate tendency of bodies to move in a certain manner.
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marked tendency
Thus, there is a marked tendency to underestimate the suffering of patients in many different facets.
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natural tendency
The task is not without its difficulty, given our natural tendency to seek interpretative closure.
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opposite tendency
The general body colour tended to become lighter slightly as the time after injection elapsed, whereas the opposite tendency was shown for the compound eyes.
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overall tendency
The overall tendency reflects the global probability of occurrence of participial affix doubling.
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overwhelming tendency
As we have seen, the overwhelming tendency has been to accept (1) as simply a fact of life.
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psychopathic tendencies
We found that the impairment in adults was far greater than that seen in children with psychopathic tendencies.
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slight tendency
There was only a slight tendency toward significance for the three-year-olds (r=x0.79, p=0.109), indicating a non-significant decrease in performance with increase in frequency.
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strong tendency
There is a strong tendency for larger craters to occur within them.
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unfortunate tendency
Such sloppy thinking has an unfortunate tendency to creep into clinical ethics.
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universal tendency
Likewise, there is a universal tendency to favour obstruent onsets.
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