conditioned
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Dr Gibson said: "This isn't about perfection and this isn't about forcing people to eat unpalatable food – it's about recognising the nutritional value in components we've been conditioned to discard."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Time and again, the female characters, conditioned to be thrown into brutal competition with one another, find relief in solidarity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
As Tiffany Lester, women’s health medical director at the lab-testing company Function Health, recently said, “We have almost been conditioned, in a way, to only accept the standard panel.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“A ringing phone now reads as an emergency, and most of us have been conditioned to meet surprise with a small spike of alarm.”
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
It feels silly, but my mother has conditioned me to need water any time I cry.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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