accustomed
Example Sentences
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The phenomenon is striking even in a country accustomed to larger-than-life public figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
It is designed to provide consistency for clients but has upset some litigators accustomed to a generalist culture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
"We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people," he told a crowd in St Peter's Square.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
"We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent, indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people," the pope said in his address.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael’s, and Baltimore.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
Vocabulary lists containing accustomed
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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