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accustom

verb as in make or become used to

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“If we become accustomed to seeing armed uniformed service personnel in our cities, we risk not objecting to it, and when we stop objecting to it, it becomes a norm.”

Selhurst Park went wild in celebration, but these are the sort of scenes Palace fans are becoming accustomed to under the superb leadership of Austrian Glasner.

From BBC

And consumers, accustomed to whipping out their smartphones to record everything, might have to change their behavior.

But the fear many Americans have isn’t coming from street crime or even from the horror of gun violence, to which we have all become sadly accustomed.

From Salon

Some say scrapping the contactless card limit is overdue, because it is far less relevant when people are accustomed to PIN-free spending on a phone.

From BBC

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

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