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While in the future we may be able to build quantum computers that are less prone to disturbances, in the meantime we will need to find ways to mitigate the errors they cause.

That gave a huge advantage to the sunny Republican prone to hugging supporters.

Some kids are prone to letting their minds wander and daydreaming.

This style of woodfire cooking is prone to sudden fluctuations in temperature due to the subtleties and different sizes of wood.

The candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler, 38, refuses to say if he is actually Hispanic and is prone to wearing fedoras.

She turns in dud stories, misses deadlines, and is prone to occasionally sleeping with her young, struggling musician sources.

Was she prone to come out with these kinds of comments or was this an unusual circumstance?

Just then Mr Jackson, prone and bound on the deck, showed signs of recovering from his swoon.

Their sluggish minds were prone to all the superstition of the Middle Ages.

Often, however, this ability is a disadvantage, because the plants are prone to spread and become a nuisance unless watched.

How prone they are to wander and stray, how helpless, how ill furnished with means of defence against perils.