Collocations withhabit
These are words often used in combination withhabit.
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bad habit
I started the bad habit.
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breeding habits
A large mass of literature, dealing with its general habits, is extant, but the breeding habits and the larva have not been described.
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consumption habits
It also develops a concrete alternative concerning food demand via altered consumption habits.
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drinking habit
From that point on, he apparently developed a bad drinking habit and struggled with various health problems.
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feeding habit
The characteristic feeding habit facilitated the quantification of herbivore damage.
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gambling habit
I am speaking of the peculiarly evil effect that the gambling habit has on any individual.
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habit of mind
We need to cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of mind.
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ingrained habit
Elected representatives have an ingrained habit of demanding the fullest powers.
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lifelong habit
Once begun, opium was 'usually a lifelong habit' with a dose taken twice a day, usually morning and evening.
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nasty habit
Such burdens have a nasty habit of becoming reciprocal.
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old habit
It took me a while to break this old habit.
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purchasing habits
The remaining questions covered consumers' purchasing habits and perceived health benefits of pasture-raised animal products.
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saving habit
The present system not only undermines the saving habit.
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smoking habit
Smoking habit was analysed as a dichotomous variable (non-smoker and smoker).
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unfortunate habit
However, it has one unfortunate habit.
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upright habit
They were mostly shrubby plants with a scrambling or upright habit, and favoured a range of habitats from arid to moist or even aquatic.
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