How to Use habituation in a Sentence

habituation

noun

• This process, known as ‘habituation’, applies to all sorts of things – bright lights, level of wealth and, yes, the taste of food.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2010
• But that can also come with risk of habituation and abuse.
  — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 27 July 2017
• At first, scenes such as this one took place only in enclosures, part of a process of training and habituation for the dogs.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
• The frog uses the fact of habituation to distinguish the parts of the environment that are live, that are moving.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• With dog feces, no habituation to the odor was observed.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2014
• But through habituation, or paucity of talent, or lack of originality, most of us, writing, reach for the most workaday speech-tools, and in this way the world is made dull.
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• The objective of the study was to evaluate in humans the effect of disruption of habituation by alternation between foods in a meal.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2013
• In the town every other house is a clandestine distillery; and in the Indian village every habituation is one.
  — Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2013
• The researchers wanted to see if age, habituation, or training influenced the dog's tendency to follow a human's gaze.
  — Enikő Kubinyi, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2016
• There is almost no danger of habituation at this level.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
• The sounds of underwater pile-driving elicit signs of both alarm and habituation in longfin squid, and the medium-term stress level of fish can be determined by plucking their scales and testing for cortisol.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• The authors gauged the workings of those baby brains indirectly, by taking advantage of a process called habituation.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
• One person’s beloved smell can provoke disgust in someone else, and vice-versa, based largely on habituation and cultural norms.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs.
  — Greg Lukianoff, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2015
• Sometimes habituation can take a while, and that means a large primate occasionally comes barreling through the forest towards her.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• Other experiments have traced the acquisition of habituation in the gill withdrawal reflex of the sea slug Aplysia to changes in individual cells.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 28 May 2021
• Such predatory behavior is rare, even though many of the black and grizzly bears living in the contiguous United States exhibit a certain degree of habituation, officials said in the report.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• Exposure therapy is fairly intuitive; each session is akin to the habituation that comes after jumping into a cold pool.
  — Virginia Hughes Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• One fact of long-term relationships, in research terms, is habituation—the diminished response to your significant other’s actions over time.
  — Paul Nicolaus, The Atlantic, 21 June 2021
• Because of this, deconstructing the causes behind the habituation of our actions and searching for new ways to integrate intention and self-control into our lives has taken center stage in the field of psychology.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Instead, the novel is an ode to the clumsier physicality of companionship, where bonds of friendship and love strain against the entropic forces of distance, irritation and habituation.
  — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• This argues against any big habituation effect that dulls caffeine’s benefits with regular use.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2019
• The capability for suicide is fostered by a habituation to pain and violence, say academics and clinicians, and then facilitated by a technical knowledge of how to use lethal weapons.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• But when food conditioning and habituation make bears more comfortable around humans, attacks become more likely.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 8 June 2023
• And any habituation leaves the animals more vulnerable to harassment and stress from less responsible people.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
• Too much confusion or too much habituation won’t work; confusion and habituation must be balanced.
  — Jason Karp, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2021
• Do not feed owls mice or other prey, which may lead to unintended negative impacts, like habituation to people, higher likelihood of vehicle collision and disease.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
• The lack of social behaviors towards the mirror is irrelevant because the monkeys all had an extensive history with mirrors prior to the study, so there was no reason to expect social responses after years of habituation to reflective surfaces.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2010
• Ultimately, each solitary cetacean needs a unique approach that takes into account the extent of its habituation, its personality, local legislation, and other factors.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024