Examples of habituate in a Sentence
the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs
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The best way to further boost Pakistan's democracy will be to habituate the military to democratic norms and raise the costs of undermining democratic governance.
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Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2011
The experiment was conducted in eight meters of open water at a research site in the Mediterranean Sea where the local wild fish are habituated to the presence of divers.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Human beings habituate to anything that stays the same or is patterned.
—Matt Abrahams, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
People were habituated to constant surveillance and capricious punishments.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2011
The experiment was conducted in eight meters of open water at a research site in the Mediterranean Sea where the local wild fish are habituated to the presence of divers.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Human beings habituate to anything that stays the same or is patterned.
—Matt Abrahams, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
People were habituated to constant surveillance and capricious punishments.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for habituate
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“Habituate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habituate. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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habituate
verb
ha·bit·u·ate
hə-ˈbich-ə-ˌwāt 
ha-
habituated; habituating
: to make used to something
habituation
noun
-ˌbich-ə-ˈwā-shən
Medical Definition
habituate
verb
ha·bit·u·ate
hə-ˈbich-ə-ˌwāt, ha-
habituated; habituating
: to cause habituation in
1
: to cause habituation
marijuana may be habituating
2
: to undergo habituation
habituate to a stimulus
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