Prone
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For fear of empowering the “protectionist barbarians,” trade economists are
prone
to exaggerate the benefits of trade and downplay its distributional and other costs.
More example sentences with word prone
Now I'm not going to belabor this point, but studies do show that, as investors, women are much less
prone
to taking reckless risks than men, precisely because, as we've already heard, women tend not to suffer from overconfidence in the same way that men do.
Now "kindness" might sound like a very mild word, and it's
prone
to its own abundant cliche.
And small groups are more
prone
to accidents and bad luck.
After all, they are the most perishable of their kind,
prone
to injury and very slow to heal due to our health care system.
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