Orbit and Tendency

Orbit

Orbit noun - The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.

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Tendency and orbit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tendency" instead a noun "Orbit".

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

Tendency noun - An established pattern of behavior.

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Orbit and tendency are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Tendency".

high	high orbit	high tendency
low	low orbit	low tendency
long	long orbit	long tendency
particular	particular orbit	particular tendency
Other adjectives: similar, right, complete, strong, real, extreme, new, general, odd, strange, higher.

At one point, his tendency to randomly throw people/animals/inanimate objects into orbit leads Jeff to commit him to a sanitarium.

Source: Webcomic / Chicanery
This tendency was also shown when the humans were fighting the turians at Shanxi; the turians were not particularly concerned about civilian casualties and were consistently bombing human squads from orbit, destroying entire city blocks to kill individual fireteams.

Source: Combat Pragmatist / Video Games

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