inure

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The crisis is born from a decades-long misguided war on drugs, greed in the pharmaceutical industry, an ill-equipped prison system, failed treatment programs and a nation seemingly inured to the startling toll of addiction.

From Los Angeles Times

Although much of Europe has become inured to the problems of migration — with the issue’s political potency having faded — the disaster Sunday dominated Italian news and could refocus attention on the subject.

From Washington Post

She had become almost inured to such behavior as she went through trainings at Camp Koriyama in northeastern Japan.

From Washington Post

“It only inures to his benefit and the benefit of society.”

From New York Times

Afghanistan has been in a near-perpetual state of war for the past four decades, yet Afghans inured to that suffering said they were still stunned by how rapidly the country had fallen to the Taliban.

From New York Times