From IRC chat on down to Reddit, people have gotten used to talking with user454254 or GeoffreyTheClown.
The Millenials and Digital Natives have gotten used to the concept of sharing their content for free.
"Every time I see a design, I have gotten used to stepping outside my personal taste, " he says.
Veteran number watchers have gotten used to the usual explanation that this apparent anomaly is caused by the discouraged worker effect.
If the Yankees have gotten used to anything this winter, it's rejection.
At airports with control towers, the FAA needs to study what impact suddenly closing the towers would have on pilots who have gotten used to having them.
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But the fact that most employees have gotten used to thinking of anything less than a 3 percent raise as a pay cut means that this adjustment process happens a lot slower than it would have 50 or 90 years ago.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
In fact, Patch editors have gotten quite used to abrupt about-faces and mixed messages in the last few months.
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Evolutionary biologists have long gotten used to the idea that bodies are just genes' ways of making more genes, survival machines that carry genes to the next generation.
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Or have we just gotten used to having somebody else defend us?
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"I used to do a whole workout when I went to the gym, but I have gotten away from it because I am afraid I would make things worse, " said Strauss, a clinical social worker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
No more fine print that you used to get families to take a deal that is not as good as the one they should have gotten.
It's faster than using your thumbs or even writing in the shorthand "graffiti" language used on some Palm devices: Users have gotten around 60 to 70 words per minute with the program.
Giving up ribs and eating my daily dose of Chipotle has been the toughest thing, but I think it's hard mostly because we've all gotten used to the expectation that our meals just have to have meat or we're missing out.
Unmanned drones have gotten a bad rap for their role in the war on terror, but drones could be used as a powerful technology to protect the planet if they're put in the hands of scientists and environmentalists, we argue in a new essay.
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