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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is a grammarian, a swordsman, a musician with a predilection for the fugue.
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In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.
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Lacking the certainty that arises from inner, mystic experience, we have a predilection to replace genuine knowledge with dogma.
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Petitioner certainly was not attempting to conceal or withhold from the Committee his own past political associations, predilections, and preferences.
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So the predilections of beavers centuries ago may well have determined the places where human beings have their towns today.
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Spark has always had the facility to be silkily suave as she goes about examining our predilection for worshipping false gods.
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This supposition becomes more likely in light of Hamann's predilection for parables as the most appropriate genre for telling the truth.
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Those who knew of his predilections often wondered why he had not become a botanist, an entomologist, a biologist.