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to be drawn or attracted
He always gravitated to the fantasy section of the bookstore. She tends to gravitate towards people who share her interest in music.
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Recent Examples of gravitated
Yanagawa grew up, moved to Chicago and gravitated to comedy clubs such as Zanies and The Second City.
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Patrick Mooney, The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
So naturally radio kind of gravitated to his voice, and his voice became the signature of the sound.
—Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Buss and Rambis always gravitated towards the idea of funneling their stories through the fictional lens of the Los Angeles Waves and the Gordon family.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
Understandably, businesses have gravitated toward generative AI over the last two years, buoyed by the hype produced by the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
—Fabio Caversan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
In the world of images and audio, once storage and bandwidth were no longer bottlenecks, some users gravitated toward RAW image formats and lossless audio formats like FLAC and ALAC.
—Victor Shilo, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The media gravitated toward the BPP’s bold aesthetics, often portraying the Panthers as dangerous radicals.
—Mickell Carter / Made By History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Part of me gravitated toward a more disembodied way of working.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Everyone has gravitated towards that.
—Essence, 30 Jan. 2025
Patrick Mooney, The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
So naturally radio kind of gravitated to his voice, and his voice became the signature of the sound.
—Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Buss and Rambis always gravitated towards the idea of funneling their stories through the fictional lens of the Los Angeles Waves and the Gordon family.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
Understandably, businesses have gravitated toward generative AI over the last two years, buoyed by the hype produced by the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
—Fabio Caversan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
In the world of images and audio, once storage and bandwidth were no longer bottlenecks, some users gravitated toward RAW image formats and lossless audio formats like FLAC and ALAC.
—Victor Shilo, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The media gravitated toward the BPP’s bold aesthetics, often portraying the Panthers as dangerous radicals.
—Mickell Carter / Made By History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Part of me gravitated toward a more disembodied way of working.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Everyone has gravitated towards that.
—Essence, 30 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gravitated
Verb
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Those bleak years devastated the American rail industry, as revenue fell by 50 percent from 1928 to 1933, and a third of the country’s railroads went into bankruptcy.—
Patrick Sauer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Dec. 2024
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Someone won a $68 million jackpot in New York on Christmas Eve in 2002, but that prize went unclaimed.—
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
24 Dec. 2024
Verb
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But that was not the case at Leicester last season, when Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall enjoyed a career-best campaign while wingers Abdul Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi registered 19 and 18 goal involvements respectively in the Championship.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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Once opened, coffee loses flavor after two weeks and is best enjoyed within six months.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Gravitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravitated. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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