accustom

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.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

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.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

You can accustom yourself to believing things without support or believing things without empirical validation or believing by simply brushing aside questions.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

So there are technical aspects that Kalbfleisch has to accustom her to.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017

Before sleep, for a few minutes, I try to accustom my flesh to the burial that is coming.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The lady went to look at it, but found it very ugly, and thought to herself that daily habit soon accustoms us to the defects of others.

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

Whoever, therefore, undervalues this National Union, whoever depreciates it, whoever accustoms himself to consider how the people might get on without it, appears to me to encourage sentiments subversive of the foundations of our prosperity.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

The true ideal of education is such as sharpens the judgment and accustoms the individual to consider his action from all sides, in the consciousness of personal responsibility.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

The shortages have roiled logistics, lifted costs and ruined the plans of many Mongolians accustomed to taking advantage of the short summer season with a road trip in the picturesque countryside.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

It’s still a lot less than people have been accustomed to—not just when the job market was bouncing back from the pandemic, but before it hit too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

During that time, she became so accustomed to playing like 23-time major singles champion Serena that her coaches had to help her rediscover her natural style.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Wall Street was so accustomed to the chipmaker’s stellar growth that even beating expectations led to its shares slipping in six of the past eight post-earnings trading days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Bacon said he and the fellow star had no qualms accustoming to their new routine while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2022

“These reviews also had a good effect in accustoming the troops to see me, although they saw so much of me in their camps and on the picket-lines that this was of minor importance.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

The old falconers called the process of accustoming a hawk to a human “watching.”

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

He seemed quite awed with the diabolical wickedness of Dizzy, who, he says, is gradually driving all ideas of political honour out of the House, and accustoming it to the most revolting cynicism.’ 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie