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
But guarding health care can inure staffers to prisoners’ suffering.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2022
“People have become inure to it. And it’s disgraceful.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
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 inures us to horrors, and it normalizes the worst possible things.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
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
This also inures them to crowds, which can be intimidating or distracting to the high-strung creatures.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2015
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
We can’t think the worst is behind us and we can’t be inured to what happened and will happen again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
But this won’t be an easy transition given how the banking system is now inured to the excess-reserves regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
She said she was long ago inured to shocks, and insisted on having P. D. rescue me.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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 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
The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
I stood rubbing my eyes for a moment, inuring them to the intense darkness, when a coarse voice roared down the forward companionway to me to come on deck.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum
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