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

Tiley said players had adequate time to prepare and acclimatize.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023

The speed with which the variant spread left the authorities little time to acclimatize the population to the idea of widespread infection.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Even though we clients wouldn’t be asked to share in the load hauling, we would need to make repeated forays above Base Camp before the summit push in order to acclimatize.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer