indoctrination

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The military had four major departments overseeing operations, arms procurement, logistics and indoctrination, and seven major “military regions,” each operating like independent fiefs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Due to their early indoctrination, she believes they will be even more hardline than their fathers.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

This means defending the university not as a corporate entity or site of theocratic indoctrination but as a democratic commons.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025

The discomfort may not necessarily seek to compel indoctrination, but it does erase the existence of lives, truths, and histories some would rather forget or disappear.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2025

Science replicates itself by indoctrination, since scientific communities work most efficiently when they are agreed about what they are trying to do.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton