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
• There is the rush, the perhaps unconscious desire to replicate the rush, and there is habituation and addiction.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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, 2 Mar. 2020
• 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 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 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 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 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
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 May 2021
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• If this happens again, hazing to preclude them from causing damage and habituation is encouraged.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• This type of habituation is a particular problem, state wildlife authorities say, and officials are still grappling with how to approach the issue.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Are some groups of people more susceptible to habituation than others?
  — Andrew Limbong, NPR, 26 June 2024