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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 “I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face†after his protégé Eliza walked out on him. [Second half of 1400s]Example Sentences
It resulted in being bounced between his parents’ various homes, getting accustomed to their new partners and often living apart from his beloved younger sister Anne.
The rest of the shows on the mature animation block were comedies while “Cowboy Bebop†was anime, although unlike nearly anything else the genre’s American aficionados were accustomed to.
Accustomed to the challenges of realizing his ambitious ideas with humble means, the Mexican director was introduced to a different industry when he made the 2018 sci-fi thriller “Parallel,†about a mirror that works as an interdimensional portal, in Vancouver.
It says preschool children should become accustomed to drinking water instead.
It shouldn’t have to come to that, but these individuals are too accustomed to having their pockets picked versus being outright robbed.
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