habituation

Example Sentences

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“Moreover, habituation to livestock inadvertently draws wolves closer to human communities, increasing the potential for conflict despite their natural avoidance of people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

Studying habituation in single cells could help propel understanding of how learning in general works, the researchers said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

It just seems as though through habit, habituation, comfort-sleepwalking, or myopia, we are so narrowly focused on this small tranche of cases and still treat the justices as oracles.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2024

Vianet Djenguet was invited to film the habituation process for three months for a BBC documentary.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

Other circumstances show that these sentiments are influenced, not merely by individual habituation, but also by the nature of general customs.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden