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  • adjective made tough by habitual exposure

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Examples

  • It's not so much that you get enured to the dangers as much as you realize, once you're on the scene, that no place is as dangerous as it seems from afar.

    A Conversation with Dan Fesperman about The Prisoner of Guantanamo 2010

  • In other words, a lot of white folks will not even blink twice at this kind of negative iconography because they are enured to it by their racist culture.

    McCain Campaign's Ad Spending Now Nearly 100 Percent Devoted To Attack Ads 2009

  • Camilla, the least frightened, because the most enured to such sounds, from the habits and the instruction of her rural life and education, adhered firmly to Sir Hugh, who began blessing himself with some alarm; but whom Dr. Marchmont re-assured, by saying the gate was secured, and too high for the bull to leap, even supposing it a vicious animal.

    Camilla 2008

  • Steel is enured by folding in carbon and firing followed by rapid cooling.

    "W.T.C. 7 Brought Down by Fire, Not Explosives, Report Says." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Thinking Americans have become enured to their major national media ignoring or belittling stories that damn the Bushites.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Boris 2008

  • In a state of utter constraint, to appear natural is, however, an effort too difficult to be long sustained; and neither precept, example, nor disposition, have enured my poor child to the performance of any studied part.

    Camilla 2008

  • Some people were equally oblivious, or enured, to our street's newest resident.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • That spiedie and vnripe puttyng forthe of the children from their progenitours, before they had throughly learned and enured them selues with their facions and maners, was the cause of all the diuersitie that after ensued.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • The soil of these plains was a stiff tenacious clay, and had every appearance of being frequently under water: as we were now in the parallel of the spot where the river divided into branches, the altered appearance of the country induced us to hope that we should shortly fall in with some permanent water, and be relieved from the constant anxiety attendant on the precarious supply to which we had lately been enured.

    Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

  • A hen and her three surviving chicks, who seemed quite enured to our presence.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

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