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conditioning

[kuhn-dish-uh-ning] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ /


NOUN
brainwashing
Synonyms


NOUN
Pavlovian conditioning
Synonyms




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But it would hardly make a dent in the cost of air conditioning, for which he recommends at least a 3,000- to 4,000-watt kit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

And unlike us mere mortals, they aren’t afflicted by pesky qualms about their reputation or career, or that queasy feeling in the gut produced by years of social conditioning against lying or ripping people off.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

"I've always been in and around the fitness game and during my fight career I took a full liking to the strength and conditioning element of it," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

He jacked up the air conditioning and hit the gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I don’t realize how hot it was outside until I step into Virgil’s house and feel the cool buzz of the air conditioning.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

At both, the luxury treatment begins with a detailed scalp analysis followed by a neck and shoulder massage and repeated shampooings and conditionings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

If we are to have a more rationalized form of social control, then, it will undoubtedly take into consideration the necessity of forming the socially desirable conditionings of the emotional life.

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight

Francis Galton, pioneer student of the conditionings of human faculty, left an interesting study of the visualising capacity, so far as it could be attacked by the statistical method.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

He sensed the change that possessed her, the struggling of new emotions, the shattering of imposed concepts and conditionings and their realigning to shape a new personality, a new person.

From Assignment's End by Roger D. Aycock


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