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
But guarding health care can inure staffers to prisoners’ suffering.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 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
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
“It only inures to his benefit and the benefit of society.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 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
Why do you not honestly examine the subject in its bearings in the laudable endeavor to ascertain to whose benefit it inures.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
But this won’t be an easy transition given how the banking system is now inured to the excess-reserves regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
U.S. stock markets are becoming inured to tariff shocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Once they've been through the criminal process, and perhaps have done some prison time, you somewhat get inured to it.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
She said she was long ago inured to shocks, and insisted on having P. D. rescue me.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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
Occasional deprivation of food or exposure to cold, was considered a highly efficacious test for inuring them to endurance.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Hence, as the morning of life is peculiarly favorable to the formation and fixing of habits, the importance of inuring yourself to battle with this inward foe, in this flexible season.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
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