The phrase "a tendency to check" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's habitual behavior or inclination towards verifying or confirming something.
Example: "She has a tendency to check her emails multiple times a day to stay updated."
Alternatives: "a habit of verifying" or "an inclination to confirm".
Murray has a tendency to "check-out", a tennis term that means, to you and I, "take a mental holiday to Ibiza for a bit and see how I feel when I get back".
Murray has a tendency to "check-out", a tennis term that means, to you and I, "take a mental holiday to Ibiza for a bit and see how I feel when I get back". The score: 6-4, 7-5, 5-4.
Meeting with Trujillo, she said that she had been striving, with some success, to curb her tendency to check the clock each time she woke up.
Easy tasks are more likely to bore us and lead to indifference and distraction creeping in (now our tendency to check *insert social media name here* while replying to mundane emails makes so much more sense!) The second is with the opposite, highly challenging tasks, the kind that stretch us too far.
6 People also have a tendency to interact with, or check, their mobile phones regularly; this repeated reviewing or 'checking habit' is reinforced by immediate visible information, rewards and, in some cases, entertainment.
The iPhone has a tendency to slide out of pockets, so check between your couch cushions or underneath your car seat to see if your iPhone is hiding where you can't see or hear it.
"There's a tendency to blame one thing, like the check-off, when there are big changes caused from a combination of factors.
Some scholars argue that enforcement should be centralized to eliminate or control enforcers with incentives to overenforce, while others contend that competition checks the SEC from a tendency to underenforce.
