habituate

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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

This war-worn and envied veteran of a few months, perfectly aware that his military career had ended, was now trying to accept the situation and habituate himself to the loathly technique of commerce.

From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)