assimilative

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Vladeck and Litman told me that the floating clinic would avoid the Assimilative Crimes Act.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022

This argument is based on an obscure federal law known as the Assimilative Crimes Act that adopts some state criminal law on federal land, but only when there’s no federal policy to the contrary.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2022

Assimilative Thinking.—It is this type of thinking that occupies us when we seek to appropriate new facts or ideas and understand them; that is, relate them to knowledge already on hand.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

Assimilative measures adopted by the Government, therefore, should be thought out carefully and applied gradually.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

We may call this stage the stage of the Assimilative Republic.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)