acculturated

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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

The disfigured, beating heart of Killing Eve is the way that Villanelle’s gender and manner, her very femininity, keep our acculturated brains from being appropriately terrified of her.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2018

As a child grows, he or she becomes acculturated to all of the sounds in their environment.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin