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"In earlier cleaner wrasse mirror studies, the procedure was typically the fish see a mirror for several days, they habituate to it and stop reacting socially, and a mark is added," Dr. Sogawa explained.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

Then there are habits: we can habituate ourselves to speed - so fast can feel slow, and vice versa, depending on what you're used to.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

Other sloths that will return to the wild receive numbers instead of names because the Rodriguezes do not want them to habituate to people.

From Reuters ● Aug. 4, 2021

Mothers should habituate their children to strict schedules, let them cry themselves to sleep and avoid too much love and attention.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2019

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

It said cat food is not a natural part of the nene diet, and eating at the feeding stations habituates nene to people and makes them reliant on the provided food.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Researchers don’t fully understand how the body habituates to cold weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

One potentially lethal consequence for humans is that baiting bears with food such as doughnuts habituates them to the human scent, thus increasing the risk of attacks on people.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

Lardellier compares modern technology to “an umbilical cord”— it “nourishes” and “calms” those who use it, but also habituates them to a state of constant “reassurance.”

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2015

The education received at school or college is but a beginning, and is valuable mainly inasmuch as it trains the mind and habituates it to continuous application and study.

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon

Captive parrots have become habituated to humans and popular with pet owners, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

"The dogs in this investigation directed relatively little attention towards the television monitors and habituated to their presence within a short period of time," the report said.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Investors are habituated to buying into weakness caused by geopolitical tumult but JPMorgan warns it may be a bit early to jump back on board Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now, 25 years after starting her pioneering research on savannah chimps, which had never before been habituated to observers, primatologist Jill Pruetz has a wealth of data.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Of course by now the bear has become thoroughly habituated both to human beings and to their food.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Researchers started habituating the chimps to the presence of humans in 1987.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

This is the second attempt at habituating Mpungwe.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

Postal Service hitting record levels, the industry where nearly three-quarters of e-commerce companies offer some sort of free shipping is rethinking the financial cost of habituating shoppers to free shipping.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2023

“We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2020

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë