Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.

As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.

Young people all across the continent were inured to a level of public brutality, in words and actions, that would have shocked their nineteenth-century forebears.

This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.

“Our kids have come to a place where they’re inured,” he said. “It’s almost like they accept it, which is not OK.”

Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".

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