Example Sentences

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Investors were gravitating toward large-cap, bellwether stocks, Mizuho analyst Nitin Kumar said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

"Unfortunately, many people were gravitating toward conspiracy theories prior to the pandemic," Manly observed, "yet this trend has intensified during the pandemic due to surges in online time, anxiety, and feelings of helpless."

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2021

Running against future president Barack Obama, Biden said he believed voters were gravitating toward the then-senator beacuse of his “aticulate” and “clean” image.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2019

In 2012, Robbins and his producing partner, Joe Davola, recognized that pre-teens and teenagers weren’t watching TV like previous generations but were gravitating to stars on Google’s YouTube platform.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019

For example, in both rural public libraries where AM was made available, observers reported that the older people with personal remembrances of the turn of the century were gravitating to the Detroit collection.

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