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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.
An important impact, if global warming continues, will be on the breadbasket of our nation and the world, the Midwest and Great Plains, which are expected to become prone to extreme droughts, worse than the Dust Bowl, within just a few decades, if we let global warming continue.
I struggled in school, struggled to read, I was prone to anger and depression.
Similarly, people are prone to annoying things like decisions and not wanting to walk into each other, which makes the problem all the more complicated.
They take more risks than children or adults, and they are particularly prone to taking risks when they're with their friends.
But it's not just the apocalyptics, as I think of them, who are prone to this kind of overstatement.
Especially because, I suspect, some of you may still be a little bit skeptical of the claims, I think it's important to just spend a little bit of time thinking about why we might be prone to globaloney.
But by reactivating them during sleep, even without us being aware, it seems like we could make them more stable and less prone to forgetting.
Bluebirds are actually very prone.
I was a little prone to depression.
He blushed, told her of his crush: “The best thing that never happened because it led to us.” 61 was clever, see, not prone to jealousy, She looked him in the eyes and told him quite tenderly, "You’re 59, I’m 61, together we combine to become twice what 60 could ever be."
Organelles called mitochondria are especially prone to this damage.
Smaller creatures are more prone to predators.
"Excellent house for sedentary travelers prone to myocardial infarctions.
I was prone to meditating on time and age.
One of these things is that our immune systems get suppressed, making astronauts more prone to infection.
But this sturdy substance does have a weakness: it’s prone to catastrophic cracking that costs tens of billions of dollars to repair each year.
And people over 65 are especially prone to be looking for these alternative living arrangements.
Concretely, if most of the links are brittle and prone to breakage, the fact that your link is not that reliable is not that important.
Although capitalism is a wonderful system, like many operating systems, it's prone to bugs, which, in this case, are called "market failures."
While genetically similar, there are small differences in these different cancers that make them differently prone to different drugs.
At first blush, the case seemed like it was open and shut, but my research had shown that single-witness identification cases are prone to error.
But my research showed that juvenile confessions without a parent present are prone to error.
But this type of repair process, called nonhomologous end joining, is prone to mistakes and can lead to extra or missing bases.
Now, we don't have really any evidence of it, but I think, to give you a hypothesis, the best guess is that if you're left-handed, you're prone to schizophrenia.
My favorite example is a pair of psychologists who did research on left-handers, and published some data showing that left-handers are, on average, more susceptible to disease, more prone to accidents and have a shorter lifespan.
And this has helped me understand why there is so much anger towards rich white women, especially in some parts of the feminist movement at the moment, because perhaps they're prone to seeing themselves as underprivileged relative to white men, and they forget how overprivileged they are relative to nonwhite women.
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