accustomed
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Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to comments about how “wild” the spaceship-like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer must have looked, how “alienating” the car-centric city must have been.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The stock deserves to trade more richly versus the market, given that management is doing what it can to maintain the type of growth the market is accustomed to.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Yet Americans are accustomed to buying things online now, Toprak said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Nazih Yahya, a septuagenarian resident with the wearied tone of someone long accustomed to conflict, expected the Israeli military to treat residents in non-Shiite villages differently from areas it counts as bastions of Hezbollah support.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The suffragists grew accustomed to opposition to their goals and tactics from both men and women, but soon crowds gathered to oppose women picketing the White House.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing accustomed
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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The Wishing Spell
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