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Trent, the former customer the Roosevelt Bartell, ended up at the Rite Aid in Wedgwood, where she said she’s had to accustom herself to long waits.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

Much the same is true for the pandemic, which lingers in ways we find we can endure precisely because our martial metaphors accustom us to thinking we will definitively defeat it.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

You can accustom yourself to believing things without support or believing things without empirical validation or believing by simply brushing aside questions.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

The problem is banks and companies who grown accustom to low cost money.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2016

“Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Habit accustoms the individual to accommodate himself to existing conditions, no matter how severe they may be.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy

At first he feels giddy, but in time accustoms himself to put on a grave air.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

Life in these forests accustoms the eyes to see in darkness.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

On average, birds accustomed to carrying weights throughout development used no more energy while walking with their bands than ordinary birds used when walking without any added weight.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

McVay said he wants to see how Garrett’s knee responds positively to football-related activities and drills, that “put him in a position to join the group and be the guy that we’re accustomed to seeing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

"They have grown accustomed to putting up with it."

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

It is accustomed to setting the standard for passenger experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

For many young men accustomed to a civilian life with freedom and personal privacy, military life was tough and there was a lot of grumbling.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Bacon said he and the fellow star had no qualms accustoming to their new routine while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2022

“These reviews also had a good effect in accustoming the troops to see me, although they saw so much of me in their camps and on the picket-lines that this was of minor importance.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

Asimov viewed part of the task of science fiction as accustoming readers to the idea of change, to the knowledge that “things will be different,” and so to help them plan for change with wisdom.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2013

Eye soon accustoming itself to the size of objects thereby diminishing their bulk to its own previous conceptions.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby