acclimatize

Example Sentences

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Climbers have to walk across those ladders, wearing big boots and crampons, as they make multiple trips back and forth to advanced camps to acclimatize before finally heading for the summit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

In other cases, temperature variability can lead to an opposite response in the affected organism: an ability to acclimatize or adapt to temperature extremes, depending on their frequency and intensity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

Children’s bodies take longer to increase sweat production and otherwise acclimatize in a warm environment than adults’ do, research shows.

From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2022

The locker room temperature was set unusually low to acclimatize the team.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

“It should acclimatize in just another second. Keep expelling gas.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton