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

Yet one daring idea would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity.

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

Prior to Mpungwe's habituation, the park had only one group of habituated gorillas for tourists to visit, led by the silverback, Bonane.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

Whiston's habituation was nearly opposite his own; but as they made no use of their front room, they had seldom an opportunity of observing the transactions of their neighbours.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden