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For those of us not shelling out to alter our sweat glands, we’ll have to accustom ourselves to what the Atlantic’s Katherine J. Wu has called “infinite moistness”: nonstop perspiration clinging to and pouring off our skin—and into the fabric of our clothing, making it necessary to toss it into the wash sooner than we might otherwise.

And the notion that video games might accustom people to the idea of war has long been settled: The U.S.

Trent, the former customer the Roosevelt Bartell, ended up at the Rite Aid in Wedgwood, where she said she’s had to accustom herself to long waits.

Several mahouts went to Sri Lanka in advance to accustom the animal to being caged so he wouldn’t panic during the trip to Thailand.

As the rare woman in the upper echelons of Chinese politics, it is a role to which she has become accustom, driving the Communist Party’s will and bearing the country’s criticism.