habituation

Example Sentences

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The Costo-style habituation makes chicken an ingredient that feels like it should always be available at accessible prices no matter what happens to the economy, similar to how Americans view eggs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

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

In addition, binging on breakup songs can be part of “a habituation process” that reduces the intensity of feelings associated with a romantic split, Sbarra said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

It would be an habituation to unconditional peace and security; in other words, to the absence of provocation, rather than a coercive training away from the bellicose temper.

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