inure

“This will not inure to the benefit of the president.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

"This will not inure to the benefit of the president."

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2022

But guarding health care can inure staffers to prisoners’ suffering.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2022

“People have become inure to it. And it’s disgraceful.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2019

He needed to expose Seabiscuit to a similarly unruly gate horse and inure him to the sight of it.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

It could be that watching a number of episodes in succession inures a person somewhat to the off-putting grime that dominated 1971 New York City.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2019

From our perspective, the advantage inures to the well-established, the well-organized and the well-funded.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

The wisdom of the common law, which made it a crime to go armed to the terror of the people, inures to our benefit today.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2017

This also inures them to crowds, which can be intimidating or distracting to the high-strung creatures.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2015

You see this silence inures to the benefit of the interests that have cornered the Manila hemp industry.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

Investors have grown somewhat inured to Palantir’s big-talk, it seems.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

But this won’t be an easy transition given how the banking system is now inured to the excess-reserves regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

For much of LIV's four and a bit seasons, observers have become inured to the riches of its 14 tournaments.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Once they've been through the criminal process, and perhaps have done some prison time, you somewhat get inured to it.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024

An Olympic rowing career had left Porter Collins a bit inured to the pain of others, as he assumed they usually didn’t know what pain was.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Las Vegas didn’t challenge the rest of the way and star guard Chelsea Gray went back to the locker room midway through the fourth quarter after inuring her foot.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023

They had to be there daily, inuring themselves to dismay.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were inuring rapidly to their new occupation; every experience was an asset in meeting the next one, while their general fibre was absorbing strength from the wintry trial on the immutable plain.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Hence, as the morning of life is peculiarly favorable to the formation and fixing of habits, the importance of inuring yourself to battle with this inward foe, in this flexible season.

From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark

There inuring herself, with all a mother's courage, to behold without shuddering his maddest freaks, by her sweet singing and playing she gradually lured him to her side, and awakened his better self.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan