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conditioned

adjective as in trained

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And that feels harder to do as the public is conditioned to consume the fertilizer that's piling up.

From Salon

When spiritual teacher Ram Dass interviewed Allen Ginsberg in the 1980s, they discussed how the invention of television had conditioned people to be less empathetic, experiencing things vicariously.

From Salon

Its creator, Jonathan Badeen, was partly inspired by studying the 1940s experiments of psychologist BF Skinner, who conditioned hungry pigeons to believe that food delivered randomly into a tray was prompted by their movements.

From BBC

In a country with a collapsed economy, no one knows who will help – if anyone, as international assistance has been conditioned on the government taking measures that would curb Hezbollah's power.

From BBC

Its trade — and aid — is not conditioned on a country adhering to certain tenets of democracy, for example, as the U.S. once demanded, or on cooperating on issues such as immigration, which Trump requires.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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