acculturate

Example Sentences

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What the judges have in common, Geyh said, is education and experience that have “acculturated them to take the law seriously.”

From Washington Post

“Hispanics have been acculturated in Texas over many generations and because of that, their perceptions are much more like that of the Anglo population,” said Jason Villalba, president of the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation.

From Washington Post

“I still think we have a very good plan to acculturate them to West Point and the Army,” Buzzard said.

From Washington Times

The mission system was designed to convert and acculturate the Native population to Catholicism and European culture, and this was done by confining them to missions up and down the coast.

From Los Angeles Times

Over time, we’re conditioned to accept “a set of public spheres that are increasingly being acculturated to the most fantastical and most egregious,” Noble said.

From Los Angeles Times