habituation

Example Sentences

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“Moreover, habituation to livestock inadvertently draws wolves closer to human communities, increasing the potential for conflict despite their natural avoidance of people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

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

And so, this is about habituation and conditioning.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024

It presents evidence of their importance in tactile courtship, noting that habituation and neural adaptation likely favor variation in mate choice signals such as their intensity, duration, and timing.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

But in general new possibilities invite interest300 and effort because our experimental and constructive bent contrives on the whole to make head against habituation and routine.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.