propensity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with propensity, each labelled with its topic.

• The study tracked a propensity among tired shoppers to grab the first item they saw rather than compare prices.

  Psychology

• His propensity to leave his feet on every pump fake cost the team eleven fouls in three games.

  Basketball

• Younger savers show a propensity to sell everything after one bad week, which is why the fund locks withdrawals briefly.

  Finance

• Economists call the share of each extra dollar that households spend their marginal propensity to consume, and it drives every stimulus estimate.

  Economics

• Players show a propensity to hoard healing potions until the final boss, then finish the game with forty unused.

  Gaming

• The founder's propensity to hire old friends left the company with a loyal team and nobody who could build the product.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains propensity. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• appreciated
• discriminating
• assigning
• neutralize
• revising
• designed
• aggregation
• obscure
• coupled
• discretionary
• assuming
• incline