natural tendency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandtendency
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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tendency
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.dən.si/us/ˈten.dən.si/
If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandtendencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnatural tendency
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The task is not without its difficulty, given ournaturaltendencyto seek interpretative closure.
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Thenaturaltendencyof his spirit impelled him in this direction.
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Thenaturaltendencyis therefore to reify the implicit in favour of all possible developments.
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Thenaturaltendencyof man to attach upwards through local affections was turned on its head.
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The exponential ascent of original material produced by such labels is driven by thenaturaltendencytoward competition and collective valorisation.
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I think it is anaturaltendencyto overweight what you just learned and you have to work at avoiding that.
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Historically thenaturaltendencyhas been for loanwords to change to conform to the new linguistic system in which they are used.
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So as lowincome agriculture becomes commercialized and industrializes, there is anaturaltendencytoward increasingly concentrated processing and distribution subsectors.
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Much of the evaluative literature on service outcomes may be difficult to generalise, and there is anaturaltendencyto focus on one's own experience.
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The results help to provide a check to thenaturaltendencyto build the story of slum clearance around a few particular models.
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There is anaturaltendencyto assume that adult attachment with respect to early caregiving relationships precedes marital attachment, even when assessed at the same time, given the relationship domain.
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This point is sometimes considered exaggerated; but this may be because there is anaturaltendencyto be silent in a dark unknown space (to listen out for predators).
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Just as intrinsic motivation requires contextual nutriments, thenaturaltendencyto internalize and integrate extrinsic regulations is dependent upon particular contextual supports.
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There is anaturaltendencyin many of us to adapt our accents and pronunciation to suit our needs and that of our audience.
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The "naturaltendency" of electrical matter toward metal bars in preference to tile roofs was a fact.
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One should keep in mind, however, that travel reports had anaturaltendencyto exaggerate the "exoticness" of their destinies.
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In doing so, each has assumed that psychological development entails anaturaltendencytoward greater differentiation (growth, self-extension) and integration (coherence, self-regulation, unity).
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These beliefs in consensus and unity as a normal state of affairs are the equivalent in local knowledge of the structural functionist belief in anaturaltendencyto order.
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It is considered that this is predominantly due application of the biological effects and principles to thenaturaltendencyof physicians to decrease of radiotherapy.
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