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

They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

He was wise enough to attempt no consolation, knowing well how small a part of her life the venerable Indian had been and how easily youth accustoms itself to such a loss.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Evelyn Raymond

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

Time, philosophy tells us, accustoms man to almost anything.

From The Hickory Limb by Rose Cecil O'Neill

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

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

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

I feel like this is more how I speak than maybe they’re accustomed to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Dicey stood for a minute, letting her eyes grow accustomed to the darkness.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

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