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
“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
One memory decayed much faster than the other -- a form of memory loss necessary for habituation, the researchers noted.
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
We shall, then, devote a few words to the effects produced on the character by professional habituation to the labours of critical scholarship.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
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