inure
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“This will not inure to the benefit of the president.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
"This will not inure to the benefit of the president."
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2022
Diggs appeared to inure his ankle on an 8-yard run by Eno Benjamin on a first-and-19 play.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
“These election concerns are neutral and non-partisan but obviously our labors in that vineyard may incidentally inure to the benefit of one party or another in given cases,” he stated.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020
He needed to expose Seabiscuit to a similarly unruly gate horse and inure him to the sight of it.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
“It only inures to his benefit and the benefit of society.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
It could be that watching a number of episodes in succession inures a person somewhat to the off-putting grime that dominated 1971 New York City.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2019
From our perspective, the advantage inures to the well-established, the well-organized and the well-funded.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
The wisdom of the common law, which made it a crime to go armed to the terror of the people, inures to our benefit today.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2017
Any nominal profit from this coinage inures to the benefit of the whole people of the United States and not merely to the producers of silver bullion.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
For much of LIV's four and a bit seasons, observers have become inured to the riches of its 14 tournaments.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Thursday’s benign reading of 16 points, a level that indicates broad market neutrality, seems par for the course in a market that’s growing inured to political risks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
First, investors may have grown inured to Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
Once they've been through the criminal process, and perhaps have done some prison time, you somewhat get inured to it.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
All right, so she could never be inured to Bahar.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Las Vegas didn’t challenge the rest of the way and star guard Chelsea Gray went back to the locker room midway through the fourth quarter after inuring her foot.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
They had to be there daily, inuring themselves to dismay.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had used his methods, and they had failed, inuring only to the advantage of Santa Anna and Mexico.
From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
He employed himself in inuring his body to labor and violent exercise; and habituated himself to go bareheaded in the hottest and the coldest weather, and to walk on foot at all seasons.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
Theft, as theft, and without relation to the political object of inuring a warlike people, would have been condemned in Sparta, as well as with us.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
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