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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are always prone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a consistent tendency or susceptibility to something, often in a negative context.
Example: "Children are always prone to catching colds during the winter months."
Alternatives: "tend to be susceptible" or "are frequently inclined".
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are always prone
adverb
At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; every time.
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Southampton were flying then and Arsenal, of course, are always prone to locating a banana skin.
Discretionary funds are always prone to abuse, and so it is with City Council earmarks.
City councils are always prone to provincialism, and they're rarely composed of people capable of doing other jobs".
They are always prone to offensive breakdowns, so the question still looms: if the series goes back to Los Angeles, if it goes the distance, is there a Piston capable of snatching it from Shaq and especially cold-blooded Kobe?
The old and the new worlds are always prone to collide in golf, yet rarely have they done so as angrily, or indeed as entertainingly, as Nick Dougherty and Peter Alliss here yesterday.
"The fact is that words are always prone to vandalism, to being pilfered from their secure semantic niches and made the possession of others, to serve their own particular purposes".
Similar(41)
The irrational outbursts of temper (frankly, she was always prone to those).
Waterman was always prone to darkness, but something permanently collapsed in him after he lost all three of his sons.
While Trump is getting attention – as he is always prone to do – many of the Latinos who view Trump unfavorably are also getting attention.
He may have thought that perhaps he had not hit Marciano just right; the true artist is always prone to self-reproach.
Schmidt calmly explained to his men during the break that André Breitenreiter's side were always prone to "insecurity" and that the volatile mood of the crowd could work in Leverkusen's favour as well.
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