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

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

“Pure math. 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

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 Joseph Kennedy

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

At first he feels giddy, but in time accustoms himself to put on a grave air.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

At the same time, the tech has put the squeeze on older fishermen accustomed to more analog techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

He’s also accustomed to the oinks from pigs he raises for his grandchildren and other kids to show at 4-H.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Over parts of five seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks, the 26-year-old grew accustomed to being booed in L.A., all while watching baseball’s latest dynasty take shape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

The birds, in turn, are accustomed to floodlights for the "penguin parade" tourist attraction, as well as being periodically handled by veterinarian scientists for monitoring of their health.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

“You have been accustomed to see him often, I suppose?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with one another for his diversion while sitting at table after dinner.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin