as in to strengthen
to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure
the hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare
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Recent Examples of inure
But while these young creatives may soon be tasked with creating tomorrow’s desirable product, they aren’t inured by today’s challenges — in the industry or otherwise.
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
We’re all inured to sensationalist headlines about some disaster or another on the horizon.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Maybe at this point I’m just inured to the idiocy of it all?
—Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
We’re all inured to sensationalist headlines about some disaster or another on the horizon.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Maybe at this point I’m just inured to the idiocy of it all?
—Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for inure
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“Inure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inure. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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