accustomed
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With material being rewritten up until the last moment, the performers have become accustomed to relying on cue cards, Dring explained.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to comments about how “wild” the spaceship-like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer must have looked, how “alienating” the car-centric city must have been.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The stock deserves to trade more richly versus the market, given that management is doing what it can to maintain the type of growth the market is accustomed to.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
The thought of living for years with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, or late-stage dementia for a generation accustomed to being in control is “not something boomers take lightly,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing accustomed
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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