Example Sentences

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And there is also a certain amount of inurement among the Italian people to news about the mafia.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2021

Critics say this apparent inconsistency “raises serious questions of private inurement and excessive compensation.”

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2017

The IRS calls it private inurement when private parties–especially founders–get big salaries or other outsize items that should be treated as income.

From Forbes • Aug. 3, 2015

"The shade of offense from odors," the authors note, "is measured by time, place, occasion and inurement."

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently inurement to a particular kind of labor when young makes for the capacity to stand it longer than would otherwise be the case.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)