"The 'injury-prone' thing frustrates me in the sense that injuries have been bad-luck injuries.
As a result, we may be prone to things like self-serving bias, as seemed to be demonstrated by the few participants whose statements indicated a tendency to broadly attribute negative events to external factors like "headaches" and "other circumstances".
It also seems that trust is a fragile thing, prone to break down altogether.
Yet for all the special effects it can create, the machine is a noisy, creaking thing prone to sorry, sometimes nerve-racking, malfunctions.
Uprooted types, not prone to plant things.
A wonderful and beautiful person, but prone to losing things; keys, money, credit cards, mobile phones.
They can be found, you're so clumsy, so prone to losing things.
30 Rock's drug dealer of a physician is prone to saying things like: "You seem nervous.
He's a supportive mentor, but he's also prone to saying things like "You're all beautiful women.
Candidates are prone to embellishing things in their past (from academic records to marital history) but war service has always been a particularly tempting area for exaggeration.
Moreover, their brains are wired in such a way that they are prone to associate things that do not normally go together.
