habituated

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Habituated chimpanzees can be followed at close range and are—hopefully—undisturbed by human presence.

From Scientific American • Dec. 28, 2012

Habituated to human presence and living in a place where hunting was forbidden, she seemed very interested in what I was doing.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2012

Habituated to such flagellations, his epidermis has grown tough, and he well knows how to retaliate them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

Habituated to deal with the world as a machine, man is multiplying his materials, banishing away his happiness and sacrificing love to comfort, which is an illusion.

From Creative Unity by Tagore, Rabindranath

Habituated to the traffic customs, the New-Yorker crossing a street looks to the left for traffic till he gets half-way across, then looks to the right for traffic bound in the opposite direction.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert