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Meanings of tended to in English

Having a caretaker or other watcher.

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        Examples for "attended"
        1
        Pool, the bank's president; Butler; Hecht; Dufour; and three others also attended.
        Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
        2
        Recently I attended the social media-centered event BlogWorld in New York city.
        Wired
        3
        Earlier she attended a service for the former East German regime's victims.
        BBC
        4
        Later, as an adult, he attended 30 games a year, he said.
        Reuters
        5
        Radio New Zealand's Ian Telfer attended their first event for the year.
        Radio NZ
        Usage of tended to in English
        1
        Result: The mean scores tended to decrease as the line-pair values increased.
        Pubmed
        2
        The conservative justices have tended to defend traditional areas of state control.
        Reuters
        3
        However, the Si: Al mole ratio tended to differ widely among species.
        Pubmed
        4
        Europeans have long tended to be less mobile than their American colleagues.
        Reuters
        5
        Authorities claim this false news tended to create or foster public anxiety.
        Radio NZ
        6
        So far, protests in China tended to be directed at local officials.
        Reuters
        7
        Anna tended to say far more with her expression than her words.
        Darkness revealed
        8
        Simon Jacobson, supply-chain analyst at technology research group Gartner, tended to agree.
        Reuters
        9
        Best practice guidelines tended to be high level and vague, he added.
        Radio NZ
        10
        Issuers in Asia have tended to use mandates to thank relationship banks.
        Reuters
        11
        Just about everything Faye said tended to go right past me anyway.
        The thieves of manhattan
        12
        He said the police had tended to stand back from industrial matters.
        The Guardian
        13
        Even those who were struggling tended to view their problems as temporary.
        The Guardian
        14
        Recent immigrants, particularly those from the Highlands, tended to choose the Crown.
        How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
        15
        The creatinine values tended to worsen over time without reaching critical levels.
        Pubmed
        16
        Even rival political parties have tended to shy away from personal attacks.
        Reuters
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