How to Use predispose in a Sentence

predispose

verb
Definition of predisposenext
Synonyms for predisposenext
  • Past experiences have predisposed her to distrust people.
  • Some of us may even be predisposed to extreme acts of good.
    — Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 26 June 2023
  • People are not predisposed at birth to buy high-powered guns and fire them at strangers.
    — Rod Rosenstein, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Foals born from obese mares are also predisposed to this same type of joint disease.
    — Jane Manfredi, Fortune Well, 25 July 2023
  • Some children just get a bigger share of the genes that predispose them to food allergies.
    — Kaitlin Bell, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Researchers plan to expand the test to other genes that can predispose people to cancer.
    — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The study didn’t account for people predisposed to Alzheimer’s or other risk factors.
    — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 28 July 2023
  • This has been proven wrong, and could lead to a false sense of security that might predispose you to hyponatremia.
    — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2021
  • First, the composition of the breast might predispose people to cancer.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • This may be because some groups have genetic factors that predispose them to the illness.
    — Ritu Banerjee, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In Koyuk, the extreme wind pinned the riders, who were then predisposed to near-perpetual motion.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The same held true even among those who were genetically predisposed to the disease, which tends to run in families.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 5 June 2023
  • With her French name and heritage (one-eighth French from her father’s side), she was already predisposed to admiring France.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2019
  • The first step is a genetic mutation before birth that predisposes a child to the risk of developing this form of leukemia.
    — Meera Senthilingam and Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • Someone with a lot of variants predisposing them toward staying in school is far more likely to do so than someone with very few.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2018
  • Of course, the chicken-and-egg question about all these findings is: Do differences in the brain predispose us to loneliness, or does loneliness rewire and shrink the brain?
    — Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • My entire life, then, I’ve been predisposed against Mexico City.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
  • There's a red button on the steering wheel that selects Slingshot Mode, a sort of sport mode that predisposes the transmission to hold gears longer, but that's the extent of your influence over it.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The aim is to figure out whether differences in the microbiome predispose people to severe disease, or whether the changes are the result of the infection itself.
    — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • It’s designed for wounds that haven’t healed in a month or so and are predisposed to infection, which leads to complications and amputation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Fans remained open-minded towards influences and ideas they weren’t predisposed to like.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The behaviors that predispose people to pancreatic cancer at any age seem to be magnified in the young, Wolpin said.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • His lung tissue showed signs of pneumonia, which rickets can predispose children to.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2022
  • We’re predisposed to think that other beings—human and nonhumans alike—are looking out with a perspective close to our own.
    — Jeff Tweedy, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • President Donald Trump rarely ventures out in public before crowds that aren’t predisposed to like him.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
  • And Parsa notes that, as with any kind of baggage, some people are genetically predisposed.
    — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Many female athletes have found the tests to be invasive and triggering for those who had eating disorders or were predisposed to them.
    — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Mary Belle Spencer might have been genetically predisposed to marching to the beat of a different drummer.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • And if we’re predisposed to react negatively to difficult names, can a person avoid coming to hate their own?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023

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