as in to haunt
to go to or spend time in often
the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs
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Recent Examples of habituate
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for habituate
Verb
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There was Shawn [Ayers, Amy’s brother] talking about his memories of Amy fading, and how that haunts him, versus how the people who interrogated the boys used their memories against them and manipulated them.—
Cat Cardenas,
Rolling Stone,
10 Aug. 2025
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Spirit Halloween, the ephemeral seasonal retailer that haunts vacant stores nationally each year, will enliven the darkened voids of six suburban Milwaukee stores in September and October.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll used to frequent the diner for its fried peanut butter and banana sandwich.—
Korrin Bishop,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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The pope, a Chicago native, is said to have frequented the pizzeria before his papacy.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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The exes went back and forth over whether Michelle could take their daughter on a trip to visit her dying mother.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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To get started, Visa cardholders are encouraged to visit FIFA.com/tickets to register their interest and create a FIFA ID.—
Michelle Kaufman
August 12,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Habituate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habituate. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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