inure
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“This will not inure to the benefit of the president.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
"This will not inure to the benefit of the president."
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2022
“These election concerns are neutral and non-partisan but obviously our labors in that vineyard may incidentally inure to the benefit of one party or another in given cases,” he stated.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020
“People have become inure to it. And it’s disgraceful.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
He needed to expose Seabiscuit to a similarly unruly gate horse and inure him to the sight of it.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
“The fact that she has such a large platform inures to the benefit of her constituents, even if they can’t see her in person much of the time.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
It inures us to horrors, and it normalizes the worst possible things.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
It could be that watching a number of episodes in succession inures a person somewhat to the off-putting grime that dominated 1971 New York City.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2019
From our perspective, the advantage inures to the well-established, the well-organized and the well-funded.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
“No memory,” writes Sir Valentine Chirol, “is more deeply venerated or kindles greater enthusiasm than hers, and the influence which she wielded in her lifetime still inures to her sex.”
From God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi
We can’t think the worst is behind us and we can’t be inured to what happened and will happen again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
For much of LIV's four and a bit seasons, observers have become inured to the riches of its 14 tournaments.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Thursday’s benign reading of 16 points, a level that indicates broad market neutrality, seems par for the course in a market that’s growing inured to political risks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
First, investors may have grown inured to Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
An Olympic rowing career had left Porter Collins a bit inured to the pain of others, as he assumed they usually didn’t know what pain was.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Las Vegas didn’t challenge the rest of the way and star guard Chelsea Gray went back to the locker room midway through the fourth quarter after inuring her foot.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
They had to be there daily, inuring themselves to dismay.
From Time Magazine Archive
I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It may perhaps be traced to a cabinet in the Rue des Postes, for the chiefs of the clergy saw more clearly than any one else the danger of inuring the working-men to war.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
After inuring them to fatigue, and drilling them thoroughly in the exercises of battle, he commenced his career.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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