Overall, however, despite a modest shift back to large cities, companies today are simply tending to stay put.

"We tend simply to clear historical stumbling blocks out of the way."

In other words, people simply tend to befriend their neighbors.

They simply tend to react in ways that allow their electrons to pair up.

There simply tend to be more wrecks on short tracks because the cars are closer together.

Rather than falling for yet another purple pot, I'm going to try to simply tend the earth.

In the trial observed, the children tended simply to guess the factory location.

In meeting the voters on the street, he tended simply to introduce himself and say nothing more.

People simply tend to live where the jobs are.

At its very mention, East European economists today tend simply to roll their eyes.