"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
1. disturbing tendency = zakłócając tendencję disturbing tendency
  • Last week, the political process showed its disturbing tendency to focus on inflammatory but marginal issues.
  • He'd had that disturbing tendency even as a brilliant medical student.
  • People who grew close to him - wives, partners, sons - had a disturbing tendency to end up dead, but he always lived on.
  • There is also the disturbing tendency to insert theocratic principles into the vision of America's role in the world.
  • "Unfortunately, wild and unstable ideas have a disturbing tendency to move around and take hold."
  • You have shown a disturbing tendency, these past few days, toward an independence of thought and action unbecoming to one in your position.
  • Some welfare advocates have a disturbing tendency to let the best be the enemy of the good.
  • Ella has noticed my disturbing tendency toward what she calls daydreaming.
  • Descroix had a disturbing tendency to ignore the ears of servants.
  • Both stocks have shown a disturbing tendency to fall when victory seemed near.
2. distressing tendency = martwiąc skłonność distressing tendency
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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