accustom
verb
ac·cus·tom
ə-ˈkə-stəm 
accustomed; accustoming; accustoms
: to make familiar with something through use or experience
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the task of accustoming new recruits to shipboard life
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Both are willful, impulsive, and accustomed to being in charge.
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Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
Getting to the large-scale advanced AI that we are accustomed to takes a whole lot of resources and an enormous highly skilled workforce to devise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The nurses also provided some basic medical education, making sure that everyone in the area, long accustomed to being able to drink from their local creek, knew that the water was now contaminated because of the flooding.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
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Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
Getting to the large-scale advanced AI that we are accustomed to takes a whole lot of resources and an enormous highly skilled workforce to devise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The nurses also provided some basic medical education, making sure that everyone in the area, long accustomed to being able to drink from their local creek, knew that the water was now contaminated because of the flooding.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Accustom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accustom. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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accustom
verb
ac·cus·tom
ə-ˈkəs-təm
: to make familiar
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