tend to

Idioms  

1. Apply one's attention, as in We should tend to our business, which is to teach youngsters . This term uses tend in the sense of “attend.” [1300s]

2. Be disposed or inclined, as in We tend to believe whatever we are told . This term uses tend in the sense of “have a tendency.” [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

Starlink devices are expensive as well as illegal, so those who have access tend to be relatively wealthy.

From BBC

Mobile phone providers also tend to have mid-contact price rises written into contracts, so many billpayers face increases.

From BBC

OpenAI also announced that it is building a "superapp" that will combine ChatGPT, internet browsing, a Codex coding tool, and agentic capabilities that allow digital assistants to independently tend to tasks.

From Barron's

Car purchases tend to weaken, for example, perhaps because in their mental accounting, people place cars and gasoline into the same spending bucket.

From The Wall Street Journal

I tend to order tartare whenever I see it, and Redbird’s version stands out: served over a crisp potato tosti with caramelized onion crema, egg jam, pickled pearl onion, and shaved marrow.

From Salon