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Six example sentences with inclination, each labelled with its topic.
Her first inclination in any argument is to apologize, a habit she traces to a childhood spent keeping peace.
Psychology
My inclination is to add more salt than any recipe suggests, which is why I now measure everything twice.
Cooking
Traders who fight their inclination to sell during a panic tend to keep more of a long-term gain.
Finance
Kant argued that acting from duty has moral worth, while following a kind inclination, however pleasant, does not.
Philosophy
The rookie's inclination is to shoot the moment he touches the ball, and the coaches spend every practice slowing him down.
Basketball
Emma's inclination to arrange other people's lives drives the whole novel, and Austen lets it fail her again and again.
Literature
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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