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accustomed to
Used to something or someone; having the habit of doing something. For example, In Spain we gave up our usual schedule and became accustomed to eating dinner at 10 p.m. Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady (1956) ruefully sang the song “I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face” after his protégé Eliza walked out on him. [Second half of 1400s]
Example Sentences
We are so accustomed to imagining a world of equally sovereign countries, each creating its own immigration policy, that it’s easy to miss the colonial dimensions of immigration flows and the ways that colonial histories, immigration restrictions, expulsions and incarceration are connected.
The em dash is already quite accustomed to controversy, with a long history of charming and bedeviling authors, journalists and academics.
It is, however, different from the visual language that U2 fans are accustomed to seeing.
Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment.
The text becomes a straitjacket for a princely son who doesn’t seem accustomed to Shakespearean rigors.
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