habituate

Witchel says we can "habituate" to a train noise, which becomes "much easier to put up with than if someone has a loud conversation".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

"By contrast, by mimicking the smell of plants herbivore naturally encounter, and avoid in day-to-day foraging, our approach works with the natural motivators of these animals, with herbivores less likely to habituate to these smells."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024

But enough venues are starting to ask for digital passes to worry some privacy advocates, who fear the trend could habituate consumers to constant tracking.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

Other sloths that will return to the wild receive numbers instead of names because the Rodriguezes do not want them to habituate to people.

From Reuters ● Aug. 4, 2021

It was desirable to bring them to the court, and keep them under supervision, to make them dependent on the favour of the king, and habituate them to constant service.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

It said cat food is not a natural part of the nene diet, and eating at the feeding stations habituates nene to people and makes them reliant on the provided food.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Researchers don’t fully understand how the body habituates to cold weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

One potentially lethal consequence for humans is that baiting bears with food such as doughnuts habituates them to the human scent, thus increasing the risk of attacks on people.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

Douglas and Damon so fully inhabit their roles that the audience soon habituates to the novelty of seeing two such traditionally macho actors cast as gay lovers.

From Slate ● May 24, 2013

A long Course of Hopes and Expectations fixes the Idea in our Minds, and habituates us to a Fondness of the Person beloved.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison

The mood toggles between cozily habituated and heavy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Investors are habituated to buying into weakness caused by geopolitical tumult but JPMorgan warns it may be a bit early to jump back on board Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now, 25 years after starting her pioneering research on savannah chimps, which had never before been habituated to observers, primatologist Jill Pruetz has a wealth of data.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

The process might actually begin much earlier than previously thought, they said, notably when animals became habituated to human environments.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

“Once habituated to his distrustful manner,” said I, “I have done very well.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Researchers started habituating the chimps to the presence of humans in 1987.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

This is the second attempt at habituating Mpungwe.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

Postal Service hitting record levels, the industry where nearly three-quarters of e-commerce companies offer some sort of free shipping is rethinking the financial cost of habituating shoppers to free shipping.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2023

We’ve had two years of people habituating more and more in the direction of shopping online.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë