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accustomed to
Idioms and Phrases
Used to something or someone; having the habit of doing something. For example, In Spain we gave up our usual schedule and became accustomed to eating dinner at 10 p.m.Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady (1956) ruefully sang the song 鈥淚've Grown Accustomed to Her Face鈥 after his prot茅g茅 Eliza walked out on him. [Second half of 1400s]Example Sentences
People on the expedition had experiences being around nature that I think had not become evolutionarily accustomed to the threat that is our species.
Rams coach Sean McVay is accustomed to inspiring players on the field and in the team鈥檚 meeting rooms and locker rooms.
But it instead feels like an easy escape hatch when what 鈥淥n Swift Horses鈥 promised was a richer psychological landscape about what roils inside hearts accustomed to hiding.
Today, we are accustomed to religious leaders being exposed for hypocrisy, but in 1926, Aimee鈥檚 story was a must-read thrill ride.
Each reaction since has been worse than the one before, which means he's become accustomed to living every day "on high alert hoping nothing bad happens".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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