habituate
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The media has a responsibility to fight back in kind, and at least try to habituate people to recognizing and confronting the truth.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2024
"Animals tend to habituate to these unnatural cues and so deterrent effects are only temporary," he said.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
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
Wouldn’t you discuss which loves are higher than others and practices that habituate them toward those desires?
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2016
To inure or habituate a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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