habit
Example Sentences
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His point: We are being lulled into accepting “true enough” as a proxy for actual truth—while losing the habit of verifying information for ourselves.
They have already made a habit of underestimating economic strength —and finding reasons to explain it away—and they can be expected to follow that pattern again this year.
From Barron's
At University College London, neuroscientist Dr Ravi Das has been trying to understand why some habits harden into addictions while others fade away.
From BBC
One expedient way to get more done is, he suggests, to turn deliberate intentions into defaults: “Activities you once had to muster the motivation to do will, given enough repetition, become habits.”
And let’s be clear: I know the two-bag habit is not some masterful triumph.
From Salon
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