conditioned

adjective con·di·tioned \ kən-ˈdi-shənd \

|Updated on: 24 Jul 2018

Definition of conditioned

1 : brought or put into a specified state

2 : determined or established by conditioning

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But, really, people like Padraic — who, having been deemed too mad for even the Irish Republican Army, creates his own splinter of a splinter group — are folks for whom wholesale destruction has become a conditioned reflex.

— ben brantley, New York Times, "Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner Are Drenched in Blood in London," 4 July 2018
Not only have Americans become conditioned to low prices, but the competitive landscape has been fundamentally altered by players such as Amazon.com that are willing to accept lower profit margins for the sake of more market share.

— justin lahart, WSJ, "Rising Wages, Trade Tensions Are Nasty Brew for Business," 1 June 2018
One former adviser said that people had become conditioned to wait until Trump had raised an issue at least three times before acting on it.

— Anchorage Daily News, "Trump sought to fire Mueller in December," 11 Apr. 2018
One former adviser said that people had become conditioned to wait until Mr. Trump had raised an issue at least three times before acting on it.

— maggie haberman and michael s. schmidt, New York Times, "Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December," 10 Apr. 2018
To make killing a conditioned response is part of modern training.

— Fox News, "Laura Ingraham: The radical takeover of California," 8 Mar. 2018
And while the 10th round TKO made for a more entertaining fight than expected, Mayweather was clearly the more skilled and conditioned fighter and never was seriously challenged by McGregor.

— andrew joseph, USA TODAY, "McGregor on Mayweather rematch: 'I would beat him'," 1 Nov. 2017

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