acclimatize
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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
The locker room temperature was set unusually low to acclimatize the team.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022
People can eventually acclimatize to some level of heat.
From Scientific American • Jul. 22, 2021
“It should acclimatize in just another second. Keep expelling gas.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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