Synonyms for predisposed
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1. predisposedadjective

   made susceptible

   "because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease"

   Antonyms:
   unsusceptible, insusceptible

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1. Thomas Sedlak:

   For people predisposed to heart disease, we know that changes in diet and exercise can help stave off the disease, but there isn’t anything like that for severe mental disorders yet.

2. Rebecca Ryan:

   There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

3. Dugald MacDonald:

   American football fans are very predisposed to stats and information like ours.

4. Jaime Rodriguez:

   There's been a big advance, neither side is negatively predisposed, there are efforts that each (side) has to make for the other (side), but we're open.

5. Carl Lotus Becker:

   Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.