habit

Definition for habit

noun as in tendency, practice

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custom, manner, mode, nature, obsession, pattern, quirk, routine, style, thing, usage

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addiction, bent, bias, constitution, consuetude, convention, dependence, disposition, fashion, fixation, gravitation, groove, habitude, impulsion, inclination, makeup, mannerism, penchant, persuasion, praxis, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, rule, rut, set, susceptibility, turn, use, way, weakness, wont

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assuetude, fixed attitude, frame of mind, hangup, second nature

noun as in dress, clothing, often for a particular purpose

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apparel, costume, garb, garment, habiliment, robe, vestment

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riding clothes

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As a result, I have finally broken the habit of working until the last possible moment of the day, when I am suddenly so hungry and cranky that I absolutely can’t work another minute.

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How has the rise of AI chatbots changed your own search habits?

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Over the past few years, though, Americans have tempered their wine habit.

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He would maintain, decade after decade, that style “is nothing less than the writer’s habits of mind—it is not a kind of paint applied afterwards, but the very germ of the thing.”

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TOKYO—Japanese savers are starting to invest again, breaking with a decadeslong habit thanks to a renewed government push to get households to put their money to work.

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