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conditioning

[kuhn-dish-uh-ning] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ /


NOUN
brainwashing
Synonyms


NOUN
Pavlovian conditioning
Synonyms




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Humphrey recommended additional cleanup, including replacement of the Moores’ appliances and the heating and air conditioning system.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

And for the players themselves, late starts provide significant challenges for performance and conditioning.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Europe has long enjoyed relatively mild weather, making things like air conditioning a luxury.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Across the French capital, where few homes have air conditioning, desperate locals had taped foil survival blankets over their windows, hoping to keep out the fierce sun.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

I suddenly felt cold, like the air- conditioning had been cranked up real high.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

At both, the luxury treatment begins with a detailed scalp analysis followed by a neck and shoulder massage and repeated shampooings and conditionings.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

He sensed the change that possessed her, the struggling of new emotions, the shattering of imposed concepts and conditionings and their realigning to shape a new personality, a new person.

From Assignment's End by Roger D. Aycock

If we are to have a more rationalized form of social control, then, it will undoubtedly take into consideration the necessity of forming the socially desirable conditionings of the emotional life.

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight

Francis Galton, pioneer student of the conditionings of human faculty, left an interesting study of the visualising capacity, so far as it could be attacked by the statistical method.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.




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