1
as in inclinations
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
bored teenagers with an aptitude for getting into trouble
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as in talents
a special and usually inborn ability
has an aptitude for math
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Recent Examples of aptitudes
For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
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Gracia Liu-Farrer,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
More money is apt to make homeschooling worse and far less tailored to the individual student and their interests and aptitudes by encouraging parents to substitute pricey group programs for the requisite effort of individualized instruction.
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Marie Sapirie,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Students are sorted into these houses based on their personalities and magical aptitudes.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
Creativity, insight, wisdom, and empathy—these aptitudes are wholly human and look to remain that way into the future.
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IEEE Spectrum,
23 Nov. 2021
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
—
Gracia Liu-Farrer,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
More money is apt to make homeschooling worse and far less tailored to the individual student and their interests and aptitudes by encouraging parents to substitute pricey group programs for the requisite effort of individualized instruction.
—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Students are sorted into these houses based on their personalities and magical aptitudes.
—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
Creativity, insight, wisdom, and empathy—these aptitudes are wholly human and look to remain that way into the future.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aptitudes
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Choosing a college major has always felt like a big life decision, influenced by not only personal inclinations and talents, but also by starting salaries—new engineering and computer science grads earn more than those with English degrees.
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There were inclinations to not fully believe in their capabilities against Argentina.
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Instead of demanding personal fealty or humiliating them to assert personal dominance, Lincoln absorbed their egos and occasional slights, elevating their talents and turning his fiercest political adversaries into his most devoted champions.
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That said, the success of a company as large as Alphabet, over the long-term, is about far more than the talents of a few key executives.
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The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
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Across 15 tracks, the rapper and producer get to work making their first proper body of work together as memorable as expected, delving into relationship mishaps, selfish tendencies, and the absurdist comedy that is real life.
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An appeals court in April sentenced Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, to four years in prison after convicting her on various charges, including receiving luxury gifts from a Unification Church official.
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To surrender to those gifts, as Rowland put it, was to shatter boundaries that had previously kept Black artists segregated to genre and medium.
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Spanish society has always had a relatively high tolerance for Latin American immigrants, who speak the local language and share certain cultural affinities.
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Squarcialupi said the time is now ripe for the brand to cross borders, toward Spain and other Mediterranean countries that have affinities with Italy.
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Donate your knick-knacks to the thrift store for the true collectors to snatch up.
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There are thousands of different novelties, knick-knacks and souvenirs here.
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“Aptitudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aptitudes. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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