accustomed
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But like a world-class athlete accustomed to extreme rigor, he seemed unfazed by the expenditure of energy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to comments about how “wild” the spaceship-like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer must have looked, how “alienating” the car-centric city must have been.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The stock deserves to trade more richly versus the market, given that management is doing what it can to maintain the type of growth the market is accustomed to.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
In his Easter address, the pontiff said without mentioning any countries directly that people were growing accustomed to violence and indifferent to thousands of deaths.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
She was more accustomed to talking with babies than anyone else, and sometimes she forgot that humans over the age of one tended to expect more give and take in their conversations.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing accustomed
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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