accustom

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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

Several mahouts went to Sri Lanka in advance to accustom the animal to being caged so he wouldn’t panic during the trip to Thailand.

From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 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

You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

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