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Emetophobia tends to compromise my relationships, turning me into a selfish jerk.

But there was money on the line, which tends to complicate things.

That tends to encourage large and small holders alike to consider turning their weakened rubles into other currencies.

The process tends to remain trapped and inaccessible inside a person – usually a very complicated person.

They maintain that the initial radicalization tends to occur offline before it is then reinforced online.

But in the organization in which we live over-production tends to check itself at once.

It is, in reality; an unusual extension of the well-known fact that nature tends to follow a pattern.

Should it be asked whether this investigation is a matter of mere curiosity, or whether it tends to any beneficial purpose?

When the air blows over any resisting surface, it tends, in a way which we can hardly afford here to describe, to produce motions.

Rising to a point where it cools, the vapour gathers back on the rafts and tends again to weight the cloud downward.

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On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tends, such as: turn, influence, gravitate, contribute, lean, and bear.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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