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the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs
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Many of us have already been habituated to paying for everything with a tap; extending the practice to the fare feels natural and even inevitable.
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2025
The bison calf later had to be euthanized because it was habituated to humans.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2025
In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
And Fisher believes the situation warrants an even stronger response, under which his team would be authorized to kill wolves that are clearly habituated to hunting and eating only domestic animals.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2025
The bison calf later had to be euthanized because it was habituated to humans.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2025
In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
And Fisher believes the situation warrants an even stronger response, under which his team would be authorized to kill wolves that are clearly habituated to hunting and eating only domestic animals.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Habituate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habituate. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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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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