as in to strengthen
to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure
the hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare
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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.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
That this change was so long in the making has inured analysts and policymakers to its gravity.
—Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
That this change was so long in the making has inured analysts and policymakers to its gravity.
—Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inure
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But there is really no reason why this should be the case for Pilates—which consists of different low-impact movements to strengthen your core muscles, increase your flexibility, improve your posture and give you more awareness of your body in general.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Wieffer was bought to strengthen Brighton in the centre of the pitch following the summer 2023 sales of Moises Caicedo to Chelsea and Alexis Mac Allister to Liverpool.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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But as Beijing hardens its ties with Russia, North Korea and other nations unfriendly to the West, the emergence of two camps and the contest between them appears clearer than ever.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Veith realized this reversible property, known as shear thickening, could be used to create a protective additive that instantly hardens under impact, dramatically reducing the risk of fires in lithium-ion batteries.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Inure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inure. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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