indoctrinate

"Smartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people", says Mr Williams.

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

Wearing them was never meant to indoctrinate anyone into the communities being honored or get them to repudiate their own beliefs.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

Now he’s emerged as a particularly vocal Muslim advocate against what he calls an attempt to indoctrinate children.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023

“The purpose is not to indoctrinate them or guide them in some kind of political philosophy. … The story is so much more complex than simply White people versus Black people,” Higginbotham said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

It would automatically indoctrinate the navy and produce a sympathetic understanding and a common aim, which would permeate the personnel and make the navy a veritable organism.

From The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

"That's how manipulative it is - it indoctrinates you."

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025

I'm thinking about the jurisprudence that, even more directly if more subtly, has expanded First Amendment protections of the commercial speech that indoctrinates us, 24/7, to embrace narrow, self-interested strategies of "self-improvement" and protection.

From Salon ● May 29, 2022

There is so much literature and culture that indoctrinates all humans, and the disempowered, to repress their justified rage and righteous anger.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your fair daughter was but as ever preparing beforehand with me the tasks with which she so kindly indoctrinates her little sisters.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Again the U.S. hit a brick wall called Europe and a team of players for whom the World Cup assignment is an indoctrinated dream from Day One.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Lisa knew nothing of the game before she met Paul, but was soon indoctrinated.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Once a viewer is indoctrinated, however, they may find it difficult to refrain from puzzling over its message.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“We’re all indoctrinated into thinking that there’s nothing more important than autonomy, but it’s a very mixed blessing,” says Schwartz.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2024

As a result, Descartes, indoctrinated with the Aristotelian philosophy, denied the existence of the vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“It’s in charge of indoctrinating the kids,” said Hanan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Ultimately, “everyone is capable of indoctrinating themselves at any time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

So whether the team rips off the proverbial Band-Aid by immediately indoctrinating Beniers in his envisioned future role will say plenty about this season’s goals.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

This explains the role of filmed images for teaching people how to carry out certain operations, for educating, or for indoctrinating them, or for acquainting them with things and actions never experienced directly.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin