Habituate

Emotional rewards from novel stimuli are processed by dopamine receptors in the striatum, but the brain is designed to habituate, that is, not get so excited by repeated stimuli. ❋ Joe Weinman (2010)

Human beings "habituate" to repetitive light-stimuli light flickering light. ❋ The Verger (2008)

The authors say that the command-and-control approach often used with dogs never works with cats (and will likely spur them to escape their harness and dash off), so it's important to know how to motivate them, how to reassure them when they get nervous, and how to habituate them to the sometimes-scary sounds and sights of the great outdoors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And thus, over time, readers habituate to how inherently political is the "Muslims are coming to get us" plot. ❋ Barry Eisler (2010)

Yes, some teachers and parents reflexively hand out the equivalent of a doggie biscuit every few minutes, the result being that kids habituate to it and it has no impact. ❋ Alfie Kohn (2012)

But then we habituate to our new possessions, and our happiness level falls back to where it was. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A deplorable number of recent works habituate us to thinking about Afghanistan as what Liam Fox, Britain's defence secretary, called a "broken 13th-century country", defined solely by pathologically violent men and silently brutalised women. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, you don't habituate to experiences as you do with a new car or phone. ❋ Joe Robinson (2010)

So, I've been going through each song slowly in practice mode trying to habituate myself. ❋ SVGL (2008)

Tibetan glosses it with the word "to familiarize or habituate ourselves with something," while the connotation of the original Sanskrit term is simply "to make something be." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The other consequence is that, after awhile, we even habituate to those artificial deluges of intensity .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

And so it is necessary to be patient, to think in the long term in order to habituate our hearts and minds to positive habits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drugs lose their effect over time, and if you start high, you'll habituate faster -- and be more likely to become dependent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The bar we habituate isn't accessible in that it has one step in and a flight of steps down to the bathroom. ❋ Dave Hingsburger (2007)

Hey, everything I read lately tells me inflation is about as alive as the folks who habituate the local cemetery. ❋ Unknown (2009)