Vocabulary
Tendency
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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The EU has hitherto been horrendous in its refusal to challenge the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, but even that tendency might slowly be shifting.
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Trumped again?
— 2026-04-22
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Rather than signalling sound economic management, it underscores a tendency to respond to political pressure instead of governing by principle.
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Reactive move
— 2026-04-05
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The term is `AI sycophancy` and it refers to the tendency of large language models trained on reinforcement learning from human feedback to echo what they perceive as the preferences of the user.
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Costly reliance
— 2026-04-04
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One hopes this step accelerates the establishment of fully functioning centres, eases the burden of trauma on survivors of sexual violence and eliminates the tendency to doubt the complainant.
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ARCCs in crisis
— 2026-03-09
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UR leaders have developed a strange tendency to be 1 everywhere other than where they need to be.
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Touring CM
— 2025-12-31
Synonyms
propensity, proneness, proclivity, aptness, inclination, likelihood, disposition,
Antonyms
averseness, disinclination, dislike
Curator example
“for students, there is a tendency to socialize in the evenings”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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