given to

idiom

—used to say that a person often behaves in a specified way

a man (very) much given to swearing/profanity

She is given to behaving selfishly.

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The drug operation was discovered in April 2022 after prison officers found Kramer’s cellphone, which Gratz had given to him. —

Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2024 Under ranked-choice voting, voters list candidates by preference, and if no candidate gets a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their second-choice votes are given to the remaining candidates until someone has over 50%. —

Jessica Boehm, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024 Although Upper Klamath Lake was known for unusually huge rainbow trout, some two feet long, that attracted anglers in droves, little thought was given to the Chinook salmon that had once thrived in the Klamath River but were no longer seen so far upstream. —

Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024 The graying hair has been preserved in a locket that was given to a family friend and passed down the generations. —

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