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get used to

verb as in become acclimated

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"They have to expect that if they're going to get into this world, they're going to have to get used to this volume of people coming," he said.

From BBC

“I kind of taught myself to get used to it and ignore it, but the week of the election it became utterly impossible to just ignore it.”

“On Earth we have lots of different smells, like washing machine laundry or fresh air. But in space there’s just one smell, and we get used to it quickly,” explains Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, who spent eight days on the Soviet space station Mir in 1991.

From BBC

I like it, but it is hard to get used to.

To this order—that the Senate get over its constitutional prerogative to advise on and consent to presidential appointments—we heard from each candidate variations on a refrain we should get used to: Yes, sir, an excellent idea!

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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