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Recent Examples of habit-forming
Voting is habit-forming, and high schools are critical for starting that pattern.
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Pooja Salhotra, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Apr. 2024
From heat-and-eat Factor meals and vegan Purple Carrot offerings to Noom's good habit-forming plans, these offers can help make your life a little easier and healthier!
—Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
According to Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, voting is habit-forming.
—Ian Simmons, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
This time frame aligns with findings that TikTok videos, usually lasting only a few seconds, can quickly become habit-forming, leading to excessive screen time and impacting essential activities such as sleep, education, and personal relationships.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
These drugs are known to be habit-forming when used for too long or at too high of a dose.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024
Risk of abuse, misuse, and addiction: Benzodiazepines can be habit-forming and may lead to abuse, misuse, and addiction.
—Patricia Weiser, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
Features like notifications and algorithmic feeds full of personalized content are designed to be habit-forming, and when you’re stressed or tired, people lose the ability to ignore certain impulses and control their habits, according to Wood.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
What’s been habit-forming this summer is that several movies have been blowing away projections with big walk-up business from Latino and Hispanic moviegoers.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 23 July 2024
Pooja Salhotra, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Apr. 2024
From heat-and-eat Factor meals and vegan Purple Carrot offerings to Noom's good habit-forming plans, these offers can help make your life a little easier and healthier!
—Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
According to Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, voting is habit-forming.
—Ian Simmons, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
This time frame aligns with findings that TikTok videos, usually lasting only a few seconds, can quickly become habit-forming, leading to excessive screen time and impacting essential activities such as sleep, education, and personal relationships.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
These drugs are known to be habit-forming when used for too long or at too high of a dose.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024
Risk of abuse, misuse, and addiction: Benzodiazepines can be habit-forming and may lead to abuse, misuse, and addiction.
—Patricia Weiser, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
Features like notifications and algorithmic feeds full of personalized content are designed to be habit-forming, and when you’re stressed or tired, people lose the ability to ignore certain impulses and control their habits, according to Wood.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
What’s been habit-forming this summer is that several movies have been blowing away projections with big walk-up business from Latino and Hispanic moviegoers.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 23 July 2024
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“Habit-forming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habit-forming. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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