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

Prior to Mpungwe's habituation, the park had only one group of habituated gorillas for tourists to visit, led by the silverback, Bonane.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

But in general new possibilities invite interest300 and effort because our experimental and constructive bent contrives on the whole to make head against habituation and routine.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.