Drifts
Tendency
Tendency noun - An established pattern of behavior.
Both words in one sentence
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Star Trek drifts in and out of the subgenre; later entries in the franchise tend to make it more explicitly military, a tendency which its original creator violently opposed.
Source: Military Science-Fiction -
She has a tendency to say and do strange things out of the blue, drifts off into daydreaming from which she is very hard to shake, and at one point apparently suspected that Chiyo's pigtails were detachable.
Source: Cloud Cuckoolander / Anime -
And the guests are killed one by one... There Was a Door: The werewolf is huge and has a tendency to simply explode through walls, snow drifts and doors—how the thing quietly disguises itself as human is anyone's guess.
Source: Film / The Howling
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