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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

Several mahouts went to Sri Lanka in advance to accustom the animal to being caged so he wouldn’t panic during the trip to Thailand.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2023

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

Apparently convinced of the virtues of modesty, he never seemed to accustom himself to the perquisites of fame and high office.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2021

The world looked blurred through the window and I waited for my eyes to accustom themselves to sunlight.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

She accustoms herself to meditation, in order to get her mind more deeply imbued with a sense of eternal things.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

If, in addition to this, the patient gradually accustoms himself to rise to a sitting from a lying position, the constipation will almost invariably yield.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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

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

"They have grown accustomed to putting up with it."

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

You are lucky and/or willing to keep working, and ensure that you top up your retirement fund, and keep yourself in the lifestyle — however grand or modest — to which you have become accustomed.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Growing up, Alejandra Villarreal was accustomed to the dry Mexican heat, trapped inside the small historic venues where she and her sisters would perform as kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The first international break of the season is under way - and this one is longer than fans will have become accustomed to.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

So I became accustomed to the fact that I would be left behind.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

After spending about two hours in accustoming himself to the darkness of his dungeon, Christophe found that it was lined with boards, clumsy indeed, but thick enough to make the square box healthy and habitable.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac