How to Use habituate in a Sentence

habituate

verb
Definition of habituatenext
Synonyms for habituatenext
  • Many didn't habituate: Each new blow brought more stress, not less.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Anyone who lives near the forests or mountains attracts and then habituates bears with food trash.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 July 2017
  • Handing out cash now may habituate segments of the population to hold out for more perks in the future.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • This is what happens to someone habituated to dashing off tweets at all hours.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Could the bear have become habituated by campers/homeowners who did not secure food or left garbage out?
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 June 2017
  • The normally skittish apes are hard to see in the wild, except for a few populations that have been habituated to the presence of humans.
    — Nick Lunn, National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2018
  • At this point in life, I’m habituated to the inevitability that the most impotent mid-season episodes of a Netflix drama will also be the ones that are 57 minutes long.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 9 June 2019
  • Those still habituated to sleep got by on milder stimulants.
    — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Those working with the prized bears bound for the wild—Vitale included—don panda suits that both look and smell like their tiny charges, preventing them from habituating to humans.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 May 2018
  • What rose out of the doll’s belly was nothing more than a folk song, habituated and domesticated.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Adopting a routine will habituate deer to your presence.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Sep. 2020
  • But people habituate to, and then desensitize to, doom overuse.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • But researchers can only reach the few animals that have been habituated to humans.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 2 Aug. 2017
  • That keeps the waterfowl, raptors and songbirds habituated to the slow-moving vehicles and wary to people.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Robbins has studied mountain gorillas in Bwindi since 1998, taking the time to habituate and let the mountain gorillas get to know her.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Women habituated to this style of interacting with others are perhaps not the best prepared to fight back if they are mistreated.
    — Judy Dushku, The Cut, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But by habituating students to its offerings at a young age, Google obtains something much more valuable.
    — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • Past breeding attempts were based on the idea that by minimizing contact with their human keepers, the captive creatures don't habituate to their strange hairless helpers.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Most studies have bred or habituated fish to elevated CO2 conditions over a few days or months—an extremely short time frame.
    — Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • 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.
    — Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The MEEM team monitors this unique population of elephants, studies their behavior, and attempts to habituate them to human presence so that tourists can get closer to them.
    — National Geographic, 30 June 2016
  • What was annoying back then is now maddening for those habituated to modern broadband speeds.
    — Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2017
  • A coyote that does not flee upon encountering a person could be sick, injured or habituated to people.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Investors are habituated to financial fiascos in Argentina but even so the news has come as a rude shock: the price of Argentina’s sovereign bonds traded in Europe tumbled by about 5% the day after the announcement.
    — The Economist, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The rehabilitation process also hinges on whether caregivers can avoid habituating the animal to people by having too much contact with them.
    — Peter Holley, ajc, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Some goats have become habituated, or accustomed to people.
    — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Ukrainians are now habituated to rolling blackouts, but the electricity supply falls far short of what the country needs, inducing severe economic disruption.
    — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Because of heavy censorship and a tight, top-down control of information, people in China are habituated to be cautious and apolitical in their online behavior.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Coyotes, in response to the increase of human presence and human attractants, are being habituated or desensitized to humans.
    — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Only those animals too ill or human-habituated remain at the sanctuary.
    — Angelina Jolie, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2017

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