accustom

And the notion that video games might accustom people to the idea of war has long been settled: The U.S.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Trent, the former customer the Roosevelt Bartell, ended up at the Rite Aid in Wedgwood, where she said she’s had to accustom herself to long waits.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

You can accustom yourself to believing things without support or believing things without empirical validation or believing by simply brushing aside questions.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

So there are technical aspects that Kalbfleisch has to accustom her to.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017

“You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The line now assumes in his eyes a very definite meaning; and he accustoms himself to recognize, to interpret and to judge of forms contained by a simple outline.

From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

The lady went to look at it, but found it very ugly, and thought to herself that daily habit soon accustoms us to the defects of others.

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

It is the same thing if he accustoms them to Eastern, or Spanish, or any other line.

From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

A fanbase was born from success and has become accustomed to it.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s that we’ve become so accustomed to conducting ordinary life through our phones that we rarely stop to consider whether they’re necessary to the transaction in the first place.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Having bought his first property in the late 1980s when the 30-year mortgage rate averaged over 10%, Moran said he’s accustomed to high-rate environments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

When Byrne spoke to the dispatchers, they told him they were accustomed to finding that house by using another cross street and a different direction of travel as a reference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

I’d wait for Barack, and because it was the end of the workweek, and because I was accustomed to it at this point, it didn’t bother me that he was late.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Bacon said he and the fellow star had no qualms accustoming to their new routine while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2022

“These reviews also had a good effect in accustoming the troops to see me, although they saw so much of me in their camps and on the picket-lines that this was of minor importance.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

Asimov viewed part of the task of science fiction as accustoming readers to the idea of change, to the knowledge that “things will be different,” and so to help them plan for change with wisdom.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2013

But the ancients, accustoming us to provide for ourselves, instructed us by their actions while they feasted us in words.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us