The phrase "a tendency to spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing behaviors, phenomena, or characteristics that are inclined to proliferate or extend over time or space.
Example: "The virus has a tendency to spread rapidly in crowded environments."
Alternatives: "a propensity to disseminate" or "an inclination to expand".
Sustained tones had a tendency to spread.
In both cases, the damage has a tendency to spread.
But information has a tendency to spread, especially digital information.
They also have a tendency to spread light out over a range of frequencies, resulting in pallid, pastel shades rather than crisp, bright ones.Dr Olson's proposed solution uses tiny aluminium rods.
In follicular thyroid cancer, metastases have a tendency to spread to distant organs.
Adds Platt: "Certainly the flooding was not universal, but there was a tendency to spread the benefits around".
In pfe mutants, devoid of xanthophores, iridophores display a strong tendency to spread and invade melanophore regions.
Clarification of the mechanisms underlying LPA-induced cell migration in oral carcinomas is of considerable interest due to the fact that this cancer has a great tendency to spread by local invasion.
Estrin's instrument was the French horn, and his particular disability is known as embouchure dystonia, which involves various combinations of the lips, the tongue, and the jaw, and has an insidious tendency to spread to other oral activities, including speaking and eating.
Louise Mensch may be the web's most complex, least easily defined manifestation to date, a kind of multi-platform, self-replicating entity of seemingly unlimited reach that combines the latest in artificial intelligence with, some fear, a virus-like tendency to spread, uncontrollably, across every aspect of the media, 24/7, from publishing to print to social media to radio to television.
Some researchers thought that if a cancer had the tendency to spread, it would have done so even before the first operation, so radiation would be too late to stop it — another idea dispelled by the new findings.
