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  • v  cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
    He was inured to the cold
  • s  made tough by habitual exposure
    a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd
    our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett

  • Most Americans have become so inured to the open display of eroticism--and the arguments for why it enjoys special status under the First Amendment--that they hardly notice it's .
  • We've grown so inured to the often unbelievable nonsense on television, or the absurd chain emails we gather in our inboxes, that the idea of a hysteria-inciting radio (radio .
  • Most Americans have become so inured to the open display of eroticism--and the arguments for why it enjoys special status under the First Amendment--that they hardly notice it's .
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  • Edward Leigh in BBC News
    The committee's chairman, Conservative MP Edward Leigh, said: "This committee has become inured to the dismal procession of government IT failures which have passed before us, but even we were surprised by the extent of the failure of C-NOMIS, the...
  • Martin Scorsese in San Francisco Chronicle
    What's happened is it's gone the other way in our society,says Scorsese. "We have to show everything and hear everything. Sometimes it works, but in the majority of cases, it's too noisy. ...... The audience is becoming inured to...
  • Jeff Bezos in Wall Street Journal
    I didn't understand all of the failings of a physical book, because I'm inured to them. But you can't turn the page with one hand. The book is always flopping itself shut at the wrong moment. They're heavy,Mr. Bezos said. "It's had a great...

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