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

There was little physical and mental inurement to cold, and the lightest of clothing was worn.

From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn