as in to accustom
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This represents a profound shift for institutions accustomed to centralized control.
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Hamner, who is thirty-three, is accustomed to places in crisis.
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The wildlife team tends to the cubs while wearing bear suits to avoid habituating the cubs to humans.
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In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.
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The Associated Press profiled the woman in 2024 as part of a story about how many international adoptees were left without citizenship because their American adoptive parents failed to naturalize them.
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In 1790, Congress passed a federal law so that only free white immigrants could naturalize as citizens.
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Evolutionary pressures have conditioned us to prefer physically healthy mates who are more likely to produce healthy offspring and to be able to help raise them.
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We have been conditioned for this without noticing.
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The intermingling smells of sizzling hot dogs, urine and marijuana wafted through the open windows.
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As a result, any DNA that finds its way inside the cell has the potential to become intermingled with the genome and be incorporated permanently.
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Citizens become commodities; technology increases the power of an already powerful few; pop culture serves up mechanized slop; truth and lies commingle.
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Tens of thousands of feet below the surface, dead or dying whales have drifted to the vast graveyard, their bones commingling across an area measuring approximately 746 miles (1,200 kilometers) long.
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