Examples of habituate in a Sentence
the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs
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These products habituate parents and babies to see surveillance as equivalent to care.
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Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 15 May 2025
By then, bureaucratic America—corporate and government alike—was well habituated to buying its computers from IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2017
Companies like Tencent have set a precedent by habituating vast segments of the population to daily AI interactions.
—Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
This habituated the regime to the give-and-take politics of winning support.
—Sean Yom, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016
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Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 15 May 2025
By then, bureaucratic America—corporate and government alike—was well habituated to buying its computers from IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2017
Companies like Tencent have set a precedent by habituating vast segments of the population to daily AI interactions.
—Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
This habituated the regime to the give-and-take politics of winning support.
—Sean Yom, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016
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“Habituate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habituate. Accessed 28 May. 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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