predispose
US /ˌpri:dɪˈspoʊz/
・UK /ˌpri:dɪˈspəʊz/
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v.t.Transitive VerbTo make likely to think, or be, a certain way
Smoking can predispose you to other lung-related illnesses
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Coffee Can Break Your DNA!
- and may predispose to others such as sleep disturbance." Scientists have been studying coffee since the 1960s, in a 1972 study in Cell's Biophysical Journal trying to find out exactly what it was doing to our cells, noting: "Caffeine binds to broken DNA and that if it's present during the formation of new DNA, it can cause breaks in chromosomes, which is why we've long known pregnant humans probably shouldn't consume it." We've also found that when DNA is broken by other processes, caffeine can play with those broken pieces, keeping them DNA broke.
and may predispose to others such as sleep disturbance." Scientists have been studying coffee since the 1960s, in a 1972 study in Cell's Biophysical Journal trying to find out exactly what it was doing to our cells, noting: "Caffeine binds to broken DNA and that if it's present during the formation of new DNA, it can cause breaks in chromosomes, which is why we've long known pregnant humans probably shouldn't consume it." We've also found that when DNA is broken by other processes, caffeine can play with those broken pieces, keeping them DNA broke.
- hearing functions, and it may predispose to others such as sleep disturbance."
hearing functions, and it may predispose to others such as sleep disturbance."
How to Make Better Decisions (with science)
- you can train yourself to eliminate factors that predispose you towards bad decisions and make better decisions in your life.
you can train yourself to eliminate factors that predispose you towards bad decisions and make better decisions in your life.
- bias your decision-making, you can train yourself to to eliminate factors that predispose you
bias your decision-making, you can train yourself to to eliminate factors that predispose you
Personality Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #34
- While the vast majority of traumatized people don't grow up to be killers or con artists, genes do seem to predispose some people to be more sensitive to abuse or trauma.
While the vast majority of traumatized people don't grow up to be killers or con artists, genes do seem to predispose some people to be more sensitive to abuse or trauma.
- or con-artists, genes do seem to predispose some people to be more sensitive to abuse or trauma.
or con-artists, genes do seem to predispose some people to be more sensitive to abuse or trauma.
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- That will predispose you to a higher injury risk.
That will predispose you to a higher injury risk.
- That will predispose you to a higher injury risk.
That will predispose you to a higher injury risk.
Self silencing is making women sick
- They predispose us to chronic illness and disease.
They predispose us to chronic illness and disease.
- The very virtues that our society rewards in women—extreme selflessness, suppression of anger—they predispose us to chronic illness and disease.
The very virtues that our society rewards in women—extreme selflessness, suppression of anger—they predispose us to chronic illness and disease.
The ONE Disease That Smoking Can Help Treat
- Then, the environmental factors, like antibiotics, processed foods, or stress, might step in to piss off your immune system and trigger the disease if you have the genetics to predispose you to that kind of thing.
Then, the environmental factors, like antibiotics, processed foods, or stress, might step in to piss off your immune system and trigger the disease if you have the genetics to predispose you to that kind of thing.
- might step in to piss off your immune system and trigger the disease if you have the genetics to predispose you to that kind of thing.
might step in to piss off your immune system and trigger the disease if you have the genetics to predispose you to that kind of thing.
Doctor Reacts To Olympics Injuries
- but also massive nerve damage that can then predispose to issues with the hand.
but also massive nerve damage that can then predispose to issues with the hand.
Why You Think Your Phone Just Buzzed？
- But researchers have wondered if conditions like anxiety or depression might predispose us to experience false vibes more often.
But researchers have wondered if conditions like anxiety or depression might predispose us to experience false vibes more often.
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- that predispose them to addictions.
that predispose them to addictions.
- that predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8.
that predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8.
Why Do Humans Get So Many Sinus Infections?
- Which, in turn, might predispose humans to sinus infections.
Which, in turn, might predispose humans to sinus infections.
- But, it's also worth remembering that everyone has slightly different nasal anatomy which might predispose some people to sinus infections more than others.
But, it's also worth remembering that everyone has slightly different nasal anatomy which might predispose some people to sinus infections more than others.