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acculturate

[uh-kuhl-chuh-reyt] / əˈkʌl tʃəˌreɪt /
VERB
socialize
Synonyms


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Inspired and/or appalled by the experiences of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, Barnes imagines a dialogue in which a Black duchess helps acculturate a Black duchess-to-be to her new position.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2020

Today we have flipped the bit: We treat machines just as mechanically as we ever did, but we are increasingly reliant on them to babysit, educate, and acculturate our children.

From Slate Dec. 24, 2019

The duty of new migrants is to integrate, acculturate and adhere to Australian values of democracy, tolerance and fairness.

From The Guardian Aug. 15, 2018

Within the walls of our middle school, these students found safety and an environment where they could process their trials, learn English and begin to acculturate to life in the United States.

From Washington Post Jun. 19, 2018

Immigrants were encouraged to acculturate as quickly as they could—meaning that they must learn a new language, giving up traditions, customs, heritage, etc., in order to blend and assimilate into the general population.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Although she was buoyed to leave a union filled with anger and loneliness, she now entered single parenthood, and discovered that no arrangement of life contains the perfection she’d long been acculturated to expect.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2024

But most Chinese Americans ultimately became fully acculturated, she said, although she saw limits to that process.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2023

We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2021

We already have a category of movies that we expect to artfully, if painfully edify—think of 12 Years a Slave, or Schindler’s List—but we’re not acculturated to it on television.

From Slate May 30, 2019

However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It was difficult acculturating to life in the United States after immigrating from the Philippines when she was 4.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2022

The following year, Lollapalooza filled fields nationwide not just with amazing bands, but stalls selling hemp products and Greenpeace donation booths, acculturating a generation to the idea of voting their ethics with their wallets.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2013

“Utica is a model for a small community in terms of integrating and acculturating emerging populations.”

From New York Times Aug. 19, 2010




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