habituate

Then there are habits: we can habituate ourselves to speed - so fast can feel slow, and vice versa, depending on what you're used to.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

"There's this idea that the animals are going to habituate to humans if they're not hunted. But we've shown that this isn't the case.," says Clinchy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023

They didn't want anyone to interfere with the reintroduction or to habituate him.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2022

But enough venues are starting to ask for digital passes to worry some privacy advocates, who fear the trend could habituate consumers to constant tracking.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

How often, since my misfortunes, have I congratulated myself on the education I had given him,—on the languages I had taught him,—on having accustomed him to despise effeminacy, and habituate himself to fatigue!

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

It said cat food is not a natural part of the nene diet, and eating at the feeding stations habituates nene to people and makes them reliant on the provided food.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Researchers don’t fully understand how the body habituates to cold weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

But much of it comes from a deep religious faith that habituates the heart in a certain manner — the character that comes from a long obedience in the same direction.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2019

Douglas and Damon so fully inhabit their roles that the audience soon habituates to the novelty of seeing two such traditionally macho actors cast as gay lovers.

From Slate ● May 24, 2013

It curbs speculation, stimulates diligence in business, habituates punctuality, and develops character.

From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton

Captive parrots have become habituated to humans and popular with pet owners, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

Blackwell said she has seen cats who have been habituated to harness wearing seemingly very happy to explore mountain ranges, but has also seen clearly unhappy cats being walked on busy streets with heavy traffic.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

People have become habituated to this, tolerate it, factor it in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Now, 25 years after starting her pioneering research on savannah chimps, which had never before been habituated to observers, primatologist Jill Pruetz has a wealth of data.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Of course by now the bear has become thoroughly habituated both to human beings and to their food.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Researchers started habituating the chimps to the presence of humans in 1987.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

This is the second attempt at habituating Mpungwe.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

Postal Service hitting record levels, the industry where nearly three-quarters of e-commerce companies offer some sort of free shipping is rethinking the financial cost of habituating shoppers to free shipping.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2023

Boat strikes also kill manatees, so further habituating them to vessels or people could be deadly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë