Message
Tendency
Tendency noun - An established pattern of behavior.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Back in the older days of GameFAQs, the old administator, CJayC, compared notorious message board Life, the Universe, and Everything to "a cancer" due to its tendency to invade other boards and cause general mayhem wherever it goes.
Source: Analogy Backfire - This message has the tendency to appear when a distro switch out one important package for an alternative (say, dumping SysV initscripts for SystemD) during a major distro upgrade under certain conditions.
Source: Schmuck Bait / Real Life - They have a tendency to backpedal on the message by presenting a personal conflict, taking steps to resolve that conflict, and then concluding it by not resolving the conflict and realizing that the thing that made them miserable the whole game is really just the thing that makes them happy.
Source: Broken Aesop / Video Games
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Tendency and Message. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/message/tendency
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