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“These messages have inured sections of the American public to evidence-based messages that need to be heard,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, who directs the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative at Columbia University.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2020

Forty years of “tough on crime” rhetoric and practice have inured much of the public to the horrors of prison.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2019

The family gift for predicting the future seems to have inured Rees-Mogg to the possibility that he may be about to enter the history books, but not in a hot way.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2018

He went on, “So many people, especially the people writing about G.M. right now, are saying, ‘It’s a collection of bad actors, and they have inured themselves to their responsibilities.’

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

These changes have inured to the benefit of the Eastern farmers.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.