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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
predispose .
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Examples
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Since low birth weight predisposes a baby to get diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life, it is imperative that we educate pregnant women about good nutrition during pregnancy.
Nalini Saligram: Non-Communicable Diseases: A Women's Health, Rights and Empowerment Issue Nalini Saligram 2011
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Since low birth weight predisposes a baby to get diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life, it is imperative that we educate pregnant women about good nutrition during pregnancy.
Nalini Saligram: Non-Communicable Diseases: A Women's Health, Rights and Empowerment Issue Nalini Saligram 2011
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Or is there something inside our heads that predisposes us to make music and poetry and to have categories like right and wrong?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Since low birth weight predisposes a baby to get diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life, it is imperative that we educate pregnant women about good nutrition during pregnancy.
Nalini Saligram: Non-Communicable Diseases: A Women's Health, Rights and Empowerment Issue Nalini Saligram 2011
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Stuart, two years old and with a slightly pointed chin that predisposes his face to a mischievous grin, is here for his Day One talk.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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This drumbeat predisposes policy makers to view Chinese investments, and particularly acquisitions of high technology, with suspicion.
Where Huawei Went Wrong in America Adam W. Goldberg 2011
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The narrative-as-product paradigm is one which obscures the true nature of the contracts involved, predisposes us to think in terms of production-line employment, and thereby represents exploitative and unwarranted demands on artists as obligations.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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This is not a pedigree that predisposes him to accept the necessary limits of the philosophical life.
Human, All Too Human Gary Rosen 2011
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Or is there something inside our heads that predisposes us to make music and poetry and to have categories like right and wrong?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Rather, these results suggest that people who go to university have some other factor in their lives that predisposes them to this type of diabetes, she explained.
Higher Education Linked To Rare Form Of Diabetes The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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