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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

But guarding health care can inure staffers to prisoners’ suffering.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 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

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 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

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

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

But even this has its compensations and inures us to defeat.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope

"The people who are responsible for doing this in the first place seem to have got away from it, they seem to be protected and buffered and inured," Sheen said.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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

U.S. stock markets are becoming inured to tariff shocks.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

It is measure of Carter’s determination that he plunges ahead, inured to criticism or reversal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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

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

Alexander exposed his person to danger in this manner, with the object both of inuring himself, and inciting others to the performance of brave and virtuous actions.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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 Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway


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