And don't let your kid's penchant for borrowing the smartphone to play games go to waste.

WSJ: Making Young Kids Smarter About Finance

He just can't seem to curb his unfortunate penchant for straight talk.

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The chief executive doesn't hide the airline's penchant for being different.

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It made me wonder why, if the motorist in question went to the effort of using a water bottle as a trash receptacle indicating a penchant for cleanliness he didn't take the logical next step of depositing the vessel in a garbage can, rather than throwing it from a moving car and essentially defeating his own diligence?

WSJ: Recycled Emotions

In other words, could the same Apple have been reinvigorated by someone who didn't have Mr. Jobs's penchant for teenage narcissism?

WSJ: Successful CEOs Don't Have to Be Jerks

Ironically, HSBC's penchant for being "local" is partly why it didn't come out of the subprime meltdown entirely unscathed.

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Some residents who didn't formally oppose the demolition said they are concerned that the city's penchant for building new rather than renovating may be shortsighted.

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Whether it's for the love of the arts, a penchant for public ridicule or a closer whiff of the ground below, we can't say for sure.

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Bay's penchant for designer machismo and piledriver action (not to mention wholesale product placement) doesn't sit well with the Transformers' appropriately juvenile comedy and a sub-Spielbergian suburban teen romance.

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