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accustomed
adjective as in be or become prepared, used to
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Content creators are accustomed to such uncertainty, she added, because government directives tend to be vague and unevenly enforced.
“Those small things, if you add them up in the cumulative effect ... that would add up to like a whole attitudinal change for me. People are going to give you more or offer many, many things to you. And I think when you become accustomed to all of that, that’s where greed follows.”
That’s because, from below, sharks are accustomed to seeing the dark silhouettes of their prey backlighted by the sun.
“People are accustomed to turning on their TV late election night and seeing a winner splashed across the screen,” said Jessica Levinson, an election law professor at Loyola Law School.
By the time Trump had glided down his golden escalator to announce his candidacy a year earlier, the nation was accustomed to rancor and sharpening divisions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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