habituate
to make accustomed to something through repeated exposure
Habituate in a sentence
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Living near the airport habituated her to the constant roar of jet engines.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
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