proneness
- a word derived from prone.
Example Sentences
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"We find it highly unlikely that segmented filamentous bacteria is the only gut microbe capable of impacting the phenotype of alveolar macrophages, and consequently, proneness to respiratory virus infection," Gewirtz said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Studies conducted during the coronavirus pandemic also found that individuals high in boredom proneness had a greater tendency to break the rules of social distancing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2019
Yet Kompany’s injury proneness means Guardiola has only three central defenders he can rely on for a position in which his system often requires this number.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2018
Or if they lacked anything in natural inclination, they made it up by imitation, a propensity which they possessed in no small degree, that is, a proneness to imitate the customs of other nations.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
