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conditioning

[kuhn-dish-uh-ning] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ /


NOUN
brainwashing
Synonyms


NOUN
Pavlovian conditioning
Synonyms




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The hot weather, which has kept people indoors and forced those without air conditioning to seek refuge at cooling centers, is expected to last through much of the week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The answer, in the end, was by breaking his lifelong conditioning, contradicting one of the main qualifications of heroic worthiness established by a council of powerful beings most people aren’t even aware exists.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

New halls offer air conditioning, reclining seats and food delivered to the seat.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Star running back Jadan Baugh squatted such an astronomical number—600 pounds—that the conditioning staff prohibited him from throwing any more weight on the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

When we finally stepped in from the heat, the air- conditioning hit my face like a splash of ice water.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

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.

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

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




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