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
Studying habituation in single cells could help propel understanding of how learning in general works, the researchers said.
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
And so, this is about habituation and conditioning.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024
These Best Families are nowise distinguishable from the common run in point of hereditary traits; the difference that makes the gentleman and the gentlewoman being wholly a matter of habituation during the individual's life-time.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein