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conditioning

[kuhn-dish-uh-ning] / kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ /


NOUN
brainwashing
Synonyms


NOUN
Pavlovian conditioning
Synonyms




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His electric bill rose by only $52 a month, despite running his air conditioning and heating his pool and spa.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Much of Laos's distribution grid dates back to the 1970s, and now struggles to keep pace with an increasingly modern economy of tourism, massive infrastructure, urban development and air conditioning.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

This includes explaining the rising cost of doing business to his customers, avoiding refueling in California where possible and using alternative fuels to power air conditioning in trucks overnight.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

And for the players themselves, late starts provide significant challenges for performance and conditioning.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

The building had central air conditioning; what we had to do was find the main air shaft and explore it.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

At both, the luxury treatment begins with a detailed scalp analysis followed by a neck and shoulder massage and repeated shampooings and conditionings.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

He sensed the change that possessed her, the struggling of new emotions, the shattering of imposed concepts and conditionings and their realigning to shape a new personality, a new person.

From Assignment's End by Roger D. Aycock

If we are to have a more rationalized form of social control, then, it will undoubtedly take into consideration the necessity of forming the socially desirable conditionings of the emotional life.

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight

Francis Galton, pioneer student of the conditionings of human faculty, left an interesting study of the visualising capacity, so far as it could be attacked by the statistical method.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.




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