accustom
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acquaint, familiarize, initiate, introduce, orient, orientate
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You may be accustomed to paying a power bill as a renter, but homeowners must pay for power, water, and sewer, which can add up to another hefty monthly expense. — Nancy Mann Jackson, House Beautiful, "How Much Money You'll Really Need To Buy A House," 26 Feb. 2019 While France is accustomed to sometimes violent protests in the working class suburbs of Paris, Saturday’s rioting occurred in the streets around the Champs-Élysées, a magnet for tourists and the wealthy. — Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, "Antigovernment Rally Is Among the Most Violent to Hit Paris in Decades," 2 Dec. 2018 Some customers accustomed to paying bills of a few hundreds dollars have been slammed with bills totaling thousands of dollars and then struggled to get answers from the utility. — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, "Seattle auditor to investigate City Light practices after complaints over huge electricity bills," 11 Sep. 2018 But the dynamic of radio was totally different from the teahouses where he was accustomed to performing. — Amy Qin, The Seattle Times, "Shan Tianfang, a superstar of Chinese storytelling, dies at 83," 17 Sep. 2018 Regular vacationers may not realize surf conditions to which they are accustomed have changed, Dusek said. — Scott Dance, Washington Post, "A wider, deeper beach awaits Ocean City vacationers, but is it safe?," 1 June 2018 But jumping out of a plane carrying a five-foot-tall missile is no easy task, and the paratroopers aren't accustomed to jumping with such sizable weaponry. — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, "U.S. Paratroopers Are Training to Jump With Surface-To-Air Missiles," 14 Aug. 2018 After a slower start to the season as the 17 new players got accustomed the club, there's been a vivid shift from learning the playing ideology to performing the ideology. — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, "FC Cincinnati at 2018 USL midway point: 'We haven't won anything yet'," 2 July 2018 The volcano is one of Central America’s most active, and everyone was accustomed to rumbling and spewing smoke, so at first nothing seemed abnormal Sunday, the 33-year-old farm worker said. — Washington Post, "At Guatemala volcano, time running out for rescue chances," 6 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'accustom.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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