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

We also noticed that habituation and change occurs, comparable to the aforementioned example of the new building.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

It is a matter of habituation, which takes time, and which can at the same time be neutralised in some degree by indoctrination.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein