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Recent Examples of inure The original series, in its superb first season, sought new and stark ways to shoot its fight scenes, surprising us but never inuring us to the brutal violence. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025 That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls. Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 There’s something about these people’s experiences that has inured them to like the spilling of blood, and the spilling of blood is very talismanic for them and sort of meaningful. Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Feb. 2025 National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inure
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  • The Coursera report found that 96% of employers agree that micro-credentials strengthen a candidate's job application, and 85% are more likely to hire a candidate with a micro-credential than one without.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Which areas are Spurs likely to want to strengthen this summer?
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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  • Related article Ships, sea drones and AI: How NATO is hardening its defense of critical Baltic undersea cables CNN was not able to locate the registered owner of the Jaguar for comment.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
  • These devices must be hardened against attackers seeking stealthy persistence.
    Yuriy Bulygin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

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