habituation
Example Sentences
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The Costo-style habituation makes chicken an ingredient that feels like it should always be available at accessible prices no matter what happens to the economy, similar to how Americans view eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“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
They found four networks that exhibit hallmarks of habituation present in animal brains.
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
Hence this difference in habituation may well account for the different action of the reproductive organs when domestic races and when species are crossed.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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