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tended to

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having a caretaker or other watcher

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Examples

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. Woody Allen

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together. Saffron Burrows

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully. Alan Kay

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice. Dorothy Day

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. Irving Babbitt

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected. Kazuo Ishiguro

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