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
• 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
• 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
• Responding less and less to stimuli that repeat is a human phenomenon that social scientists call habituation.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• 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