tend (to)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tend (to)
Verb
  • There’s a lot to like about the way the Sabres have played, though.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Choi likes to precut carrots, celery, onions and fennel.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bill Clinton preferred new releases, screening seminal '90s movies like Schindler's List, Groundhog Day, and Titanic.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The company also prefers to return to locations year after year, so customers know where to find them, Simonson said.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, shoppers seem to be gravitating toward a specific wide-leg style, which is available for just $32.
    Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • More generally, Europeans' personal happiness levels have seemingly gravitated away from church and children, the traditional sources of meaning, and toward a discomfiting positive correlation with the size of a nation's welfare state.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The annual Teens & Screens survey of 1,500 adolescents from UCLA‘s Center for Scholars & Storytellers shows a sea change in the type of content favored by viewers between the ages 10 and 24 year old.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Over time, the congress fostered a transnational network of culturally influential elites who favored liberal democracy over communism and Marxism.
    Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Tend (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tend%20%28to%29. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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