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

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

He was brought back to the rear area to acclimatize and get cleaned up.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge