inure
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“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
Diggs appeared to inure his ankle on an 8-yard run by Eno Benjamin on a first-and-19 play.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
“These election concerns are neutral and non-partisan but obviously our labors in that vineyard may incidentally inure to the benefit of one party or another in given cases,” he stated.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020
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
“The fact that she has such a large platform inures to the benefit of her constituents, even if they can’t see her in person much of the time.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
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
It’s a hard heart that inures to seeing a magnolia warbler, but a gray catbird changes the dynamic, cranking out its full rebuke before Sarver can even get it out of the bag.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 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
Whether my influence thus exerted inures to the benefit of one party or another is a question which I cannot take into consideration.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by Schofield, John M.
The public is inured to that spectacle by now.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 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
The lack of a bump shows that investors are becoming inured to robo-taxi announcements.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
First, investors may have grown inured to Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
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
I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
I stood rubbing my eyes for a moment, inuring them to the intense darkness, when a coarse voice roared down the forward companionway to me to come on deck.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua
Occasional deprivation of food or exposure to cold, was considered a highly efficacious test for inuring them to endurance.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo
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