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Yu and colleagues investigated whether elite controllers have a propensity for steering the virus to heterochromatin.

He also has a propensity to use clanking words when he could have used simpler ones.

The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding.

Total mass becomes significant because of the propensity of a thermal runaway to spread rapidly.

Our none-too-shabby showing in the medal count this year is due primarily to our propensity to come in third.

Some privacy advocates think that our propensity for being unnerved by drones will end up being a boon to privacy.

No one can doubt that man has as strong a propensity to unite with woman, as bulls and stags have with the females of their kind.

She feared the magnetic power of The Red Lion, coupled with my propensity for rotating.

And again: "Whenever he indulges this propensity he uniformly lays down good law."

He had attributed this propensity to a simple womanly talent for motherliness.

Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous, that it seems to deserve insertion.