单词 Collocations with tendency 释义

Collocations withtendency

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aggressive tendencyAs indicated earlier, it has been demonstrated that girls are more likely than boys to express their aggressive tendencies in relational terms.From theCambridge English Corpuscentral tendencyThis comparison can be quantified using a statistical measure of central tendency and dispersion.From theCambridge English Corpusdangerous tendencySecond, there is a dangerous tendency to think (when anyone is short of ideas) that we need more information, more definitions of roles, above all more statistics, more data.From theCambridge English Corpusdestructive tendencyHere we need to warn against the destructive tendency in our times ofjudging patterns prematurely using strict criteria such as efficiency, cost reduction, and streamlining.From theCambridge English Corpusdisturbing tendencyPossession cases were unstable and unpredictable, and the antics of adolescent demoniacs had a disturbing tendency to invert and overturn the established age, gender, and social hierarchy.From theCambridge English Corpusgeneral tendencyHowever, we saw that considerations of register may override this general tendency.From theCambridge English Corpusgrowing tendencyIt is complicated to make an assumption of the growing tendency of the small dilatations.From theCambridge English Corpusincreasing tendencyUndoubtedly, they are on the rise, due to the increasing tendency to perform caesarean sections.From theCambridge English Corpusinnate tendencyIt characterizes the innate tendency of bodies to move in a certain manner.From theCambridge English Corpusmarked tendencyThus, there is a marked tendency to underestimate the suffering of patients in many different facets.From theCambridge English Corpusnatural tendencyThe task is not without its difficulty, given our natural tendency to seek interpretative closure.From theCambridge English Corpusopposite tendencyThe general body colour tended to become lighter slightly as the time after injection elapsed, whereas the opposite tendency was shown for the compound eyes.From theCambridge English Corpusoverall tendencyThe overall tendency reflects the global probability of occurrence of participial affix doubling.From theCambridge English Corpusoverwhelming tendencyAs we have seen, the overwhelming tendency has been to accept (1) as simply a fact of life.From theCambridge English Corpuspsychopathic tendenciesWe found that the impairment in adults was far greater than that seen in children with psychopathic tendencies.From theCambridge English Corpusslight tendencyThere was only a slight tendency toward significance for the three-year-olds (r=x0.79, p=0.109), indicating a non-significant decrease in performance with increase in frequency.From theCambridge English Corpusstrong tendencyThere is a strong tendency for larger craters to occur within them.From theCambridge English Corpusunfortunate tendencySuch sloppy thinking has an unfortunate tendency to creep into clinical ethics.From theCambridge English Corpusuniversal tendencyLikewise, there is a universal tendency to favour obstruent onsets.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/tendency##