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habituation

[huh-bich-oo-ay-shuhn] / həˌbɪtʃ uˈeɪ ʃən /








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The Costo-style habituation makes chicken an ingredient that feels like it should always be available at accessible prices no matter what happens to the economy, similar to how Americans view eggs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Studying habituation in single cells could help propel understanding of how learning in general works, the researchers said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

It just seems as though through habit, habituation, comfort-sleepwalking, or myopia, we are so narrowly focused on this small tranche of cases and still treat the justices as oracles.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2024

In addition, binging on breakup songs can be part of “a habituation process” that reduces the intensity of feelings associated with a romantic split, Sbarra said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

And secondly, none of these qualities are mere gifts;—all require exercise, habituation, energising, to get and keep them.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


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