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
“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
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
It’s a hard heart that inures to seeing a magnolia warbler, but a gray catbird changes the dynamic, cranking out its full rebuke before Sarver can even get it out of the bag.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018
This also inures them to crowds, which can be intimidating or distracting to the high-strung creatures.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2015
Hunger was the principal sensation, though we had eaten in the cabin the night before, and the Indian life inures a man to fasting when he cannot come by food.
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
The public is inured to that spectacle by now.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
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
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
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
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 Lissagary, P.
He had used his methods, and they had failed, inuring only to the advantage of Santa Anna and Mexico.
From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
But by wintering them at their destination, I had hopes of inuring the importation so that they would withstand the coming summer, the heat of which was a sore trial to a northern-bred animal.
From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Adams, Andy
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