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Six example sentences with proclivity, each labelled with its topic.
Twin studies suggest a proclivity for risk shows up early, long before anyone has money or a license to lose.
Psychology
Her proclivity for minor keys shows in every album; even the love songs somehow arrive sounding like farewells.
Music
Players show a proclivity for hoarding potions, finishing a forty-hour campaign with two hundred unused and none ever opened.
Gaming
The scouting report noted his proclivity for spinning toward the baseline, and the defense was waiting there every time.
Basketball
My grandmother's proclivity for butter meant every vegetable arrived at the table glistening, and nobody ever complained.
Cooking
The author's proclivity for sentences that run a full page is the first thing every reader mentions and the last thing they forgive.
Literature
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