accustomed
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"It got me accustomed to being in the limelight," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Allow your eyes roughly 30 minutes to become accustomed to the darkness, then watch a broad section of the sky rather than concentrating on one small area.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“We’ve had to do a lot of training with our staff for the past three years because they were so accustomed to helping folks one-on-one and now they can’t.”
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
For senior faculty accustomed to teaching jaded upperclassmen, exposure to first-years is a tonic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
For many young men accustomed to a civilian life with freedom and personal privacy, military life was tough and there was a lot of grumbling.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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