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Different levels of mental and muscular activity during sleep and waking — though the temperature curve may persist through force of habit even when sleeping patterns change.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
Or is the American tendency to refrigerate eggs just a force of habit?
—Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
However, this rotation of sweet or salty snacks winding their way through the office may not merely be a force of habit.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Well, 26 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1796, in the meaning defined above
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“Force of habit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force%20of%20habit. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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