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inure

[in-yoor, ih-noor] / ɪnˈjʊər, ɪˈnʊər /


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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

And no, the sheer repetitiveness of what is by now a well known pattern of conduct within the church should not cauterize the outrage nor inure lawmakers to the urgency of action.

From Washington Post Nov. 13, 2021

“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

It’s a hard heart that inures to seeing a magnolia warbler, but a gray catbird changes the dynamic, cranking out its full rebuke before Sarver can even get it out of the bag.

From Washington Times May 26, 2018

At the same time he’s an actor playing a role, and his real-life success largely inures him from reprisal or blowback.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2012

Will any one say that all this inures to capital, and leaves the laborer comparatively unrewarded?

From Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by Boutwell, George S.

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

We may be too inured these days to the unceasing drumbeat of immigration’s realities and disinformation to expect “The Old Oak,” as deeply emotional as it is, to have a similar impact.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 2024

An Olympic rowing career had left Porter Collins a bit inured to the pain of others, as he assumed they usually didn’t know what pain was.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

For minor offences, the bishops were empowered to imprison during pleasure and fine at discretion, the fine inuring to the royal exchequer.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)

After studying in London and Cambridge, and inuring himself to all kinds of hardships and privations, Burckhardt left England in March 1809 for Malta, whence he proceeded, in the following autumn, to Aleppo.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

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 Bain, Alexander




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