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- noun Plural form of
predisposition .
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Examples
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These goals exist only as possibilities and should not, I contend, be referred to as predispositions or tendencies (almost as if they were instincts).
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But it is to be understood that this latter consciousness did not come to the present existence from the previous one, and also that it is only to causes contained in the old existence, namely, to karma called the predispositions, to inclination, an object, etc., that its present appearance is due.
Rebirth Is Not Transmigration. II. The Doctrine. 1. Translated from the Milindapañha (7116). 1909
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Psychoanalyst Howard Shevrin, a plaintiff's witness, said that given the pair's "predispositions," the record could have crystallized suicidal impulses.
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They analyze his DNA and send you a report containing 230 "predispositions".
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That sounds more like conservative predispositions at work.
Is there a liberal gene? Stephen Stromberg 2010
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The mission involved mind-numbing, insanity-inducing loneliness, unless one had prepared both his mind and his body against such predispositions.
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He, on the other hand, betrays little petulancies of disposition, little faults and predispositions of which she never dreamed in the prenuptial days, and which she now finds eminently distasteful.
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•Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on ideological predispositions.
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Rudel speculated that women with genetic predispositions to breast cancer might be at higher risk from these exposures.
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Rudel speculated that women with genetic predispositions to breast cancer might be at higher risk from these exposures.
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