habituate

Example Sentences

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"By contrast, by mimicking the smell of plants herbivore naturally encounter, and avoid in day-to-day foraging, our approach works with the natural motivators of these animals, with herbivores less likely to habituate to these smells."

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024

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

Other sloths that will return to the wild receive numbers instead of names because the Rodriguezes do not want them to habituate to people.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2021

Mothers should habituate their children to strict schedules, let them cry themselves to sleep and avoid too much love and attention.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2019

A little practice will habituate them by degrees to the harness of war.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp