accustom

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

As the rare woman in the upper echelons of Chinese politics, it is a role to which she has become accustom, driving the Communist Party’s will and bearing the country’s criticism.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

Much the same is true for the pandemic, which lingers in ways we find we can endure precisely because our martial metaphors accustom us to thinking we will definitively defeat it.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

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

The men leaning to the oars were pelted with bird droppings as they tried to accustom themselves to the new circumstances.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

Habit accustoms the individual to accommodate himself to existing conditions, no matter how severe they may be.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

This accustoms the mind to sound exertion, and not to fits of attention.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

This is indicated by the manner in which it accustoms itself to the sight of strange objects, and by its behavior when a change is made in its nest or surroundings.

From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.

Already accustomed to extreme environments, they are quick to adapt to the wind farm's conditions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

The researchers also noted that the chimpanzees in this study are accustomed to living around humans and regularly encounter objects that do not exist in the wild.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Still, winning over city slickers accustomed to premium brands remains an uphill battle.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Buyers also had grown accustomed to buying Iranian oil at a discount when sanctions were in effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

As Taran’s eyes grew accustomed to this yellow twilight, he made out a heavy, studded portal with a slot at the base.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

The old falconers called the process of accustoming a hawk to a human “watching.”

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

With the speedy Wall leading the way, the Wizards plan to use more of a running, uptempo style than Porter was accustoming to playing the past two seasons at Georgetown.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2013

Carrying his battered little suitcase, Thady Shea started off, gradually accustoming his eyes to picking out the rough trail.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.