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How to use the word conditioned in a Sentence?

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

Christopher McCandless

added by Normando
1 year ago

A lot of the quality-of-life offenses that communities are complaining about they don't know who else to call but the cops, the Legal Aid Society has been conditioned to call the cops for every single issue when we shouldn't necessarily be doing that... We throw the cops at everything, which means they are now expected to do more and be more and wear more hats -- many of which they are not able to or qualified to do.

Jennvine Wong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you have a miscarriage, there's this idea that it's not as real for the man because we're not growing the baby inside of us, we're conditioned not to express emotion and to give our wives space to feel grief and pain. The truth is that we're hurting, too.

Justin Salinger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Employment should not be conditioned upon whether you will agree to serve as a human guinea pig, what is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Houston Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Houston Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.

Jared Woodfill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are taught in this culture to react to perceptions of scarcity with suspicion and attack, instead of practicing the idea of' compersion', or joy in someone else's joy, we are conditioned to respond to joy and success with,' You shouldn't feel good when I don't feel good.' This sets up a nasty cycle of blame-attack-separation, which ultimately fuels our epidemic of alienation and loneliness.

Damon Jacobs

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you have to be outside, try to limit your exposure and keep yourself well hydrated, seek air conditioned cooling centers if you have to.

Marvin Percha

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a 47-year-old black woman, I sort of conditioned Jennifer McClellan to ignore it because it was too painful, it feels like this weight will be lifted off of my shoulder, personally, and my people's.

Jennifer McClellan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are social expectations for what it means to be a girl, social expectations for what it means to be a boy, if you're conditioned to think that there's only one way to be and it's the right way, and your whole life you're trying to be the right kind of girl or boy, what is that doing to you? How are you limiting yourself?

Yarrow Halpern

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have been part of restaurants that have closed, like, couldn't stay in business, so I'm conditioned to know what that feels like, and that isn't new to me, the emotional part now is going through that similar death, but here, I did nothing wrong.

Amy Brandwein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My immediate reaction is always to answer with words like' strong' and' brave' and' powerful,' but if I'm being honest, to me, being a woman is not about being brave or being strong or being powerful. It's not about being anything specific, it's just about giving yourself permission to be the things that you already are, which seems very easy, but it is not. Because women have been conditioned to fit into boxes ; usually tiny, pretty, sparkly boxes with bows on the them.

Kristen Bell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's a product that respects South Africans, it's comfortable, air-conditioned, better lighting, better safety features.

Hector Danisa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That has conditioned everything else, first of all I want to know when the thing's going to come.

President Tim Clark

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The majority of the mobile player base is conditioned against paying for mobile games.

Alex Malafeev

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While you're kind of conditioned at this point to think,' Absolutely none.' Pressure is building.

John Oliver

Found on CNN
4 years ago

discharge by death- in this technotyrannical society. I say this:- the youths now come of age, filled with hate, anger and rage, all learned and conditioned behaviors from adults, as they discharge by death upon the world's technotyrannical stage. they all see death as a way of life. How foolish?

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

As we approach the hottest time of day, I once again urge Marylanders to be mindful of the impact of this severe weather on their health and wellness, if you havent already, please head to air-conditioned spaces as temperatures peak this afternoon.

Larry Hogan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In the past, when leaders after they won elections, they sat in air-conditioned rooms and they never reached out to people, but Modi was never like that. He was always connected to the people through social media.

Mohit Sharma

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

That's the science of behaviorism, which says that you can teach anything by a carefully designed program of step-by-step reinforcement, whenever they become conditioned, the algorithm will discover that and we start removing notifications from their program.

Samer El Gharib

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My bias is that it is silly to play in 100 degree temperatures, the risk of heat stroke, collapse on the court, acute kidney injury and a serious fall as one collapses from the heat are just not worth it. Why not postpone for a few days, play only at night or play in closed air conditioned stadiums when available?

Robert Glatter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Not unlike soldiers, when they come home, and even though they're, quote, safe, their bodies are conditioned to react under enormous stress, there's a whole series of biochemical reactions that go on. It's not just an emotional response.

Robert Schwarz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

College campuses for a long time have gotten away with being indoctrination places for leftists, the diversity officer’s email conditioned people to react negatively to opposing ideas.

Spencer Brown

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You view it as an issue of principle that I need to commit to appoint a special counsel in a manner that I don't even know if it's being investigated, but my view is that I have a responsibility when I take that oath, if I become deputy attorney general. I cannot take it conditioned upon having committed how I'm going to handle a particular case.

Rod Rosenstein

Found on CNN
6 years ago

They also built an air-conditioned circus tent where guests can wait, inside there is playground equipment and interactive games for kids. Guests get restaurant-style pagers that alert them when it’s time to board the ride.

Arthur Levine

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I am now reasonably satisfied the situation has settled down ... So I am comfortable with moving off zero soon, conditioned on no marked deterioration in economic conditions, i believe it will soon be appropriate to begin a new policy phase.

Dennis Lockhart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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