inculcate

To tell one’s beads regularly requires a measure of the discipline it is meant to inculcate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

"I think you need to try and inculcate people into an understanding of the structures of governance, how you can engage in those structures."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

As Sagan wrote in his 1985 novel Contact, an awareness of extraterrestrial life would serve to inculcate the “power of the planetary perspective.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2023

It can be more difficult for employers to inculcate values and for workers to learn from one another.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Rut wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

This year brought a late, travel-related cancellation from the gifted pianist Utsav Lal, who inculcates the Indian classical tradition into his accompaniment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024

Despite being physically gone, Numa continues to narrate the course of the film, a deliberate storytelling choice by Bayona that inculcates the theme of consumption as a type of communion.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

“One of the things about recovery that I think people sometimes overlook is the fact that it inculcates certain values. Be honest. Be accountable. Help other people. Apologize when you’re wrong.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020

Goethe, unlike Voltaire, inculcates reverence and love; unlike Rousseau, he teaches us to see objects clearly as they are, he trains us to sanity.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

We were inculcated with the importance of charity, love toward all, good works and humility, and urged to carry those virtues into adulthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

It suggests a household that lacks rules, or plays by rules other than the ones most of us have been inculcated with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

It inculcated a deep, intimidating culture of secrecy among its employees and made them sign aggressive agreements to that effect.

From Slate ● May 30, 2024

A brother inculcated Mr. Arthit; Ms. Thanaporn’s passion was passed down by her father.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

It was a rite that strengthened group identification and inculcated positive values.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Authorities also sent Tibetan children to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, educating them predominantly in Mandarin and inculcating Chinese culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“This is not about enforcing standards,” she said, “it’s about inculcating a particular value system within the officer corps.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025

It’s an irresistible ditty that starts by contrasting a text-to-speech voice inculcating on Isaac Newton with Pearce and musician Sharron Kraus singing about the sun’s mass.

From Scientific American ● May 27, 2022

How should they mediate the tensions between inculcating values of robust debate, on the one hand, and of disciplined civility on the other?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021

It gives advice with regard to the measures he should pursue to attain his object, particularly inculcating the best means to gain private friends, and acquire general popularity.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop