- present participle of assimilate.
assimilating
Example Sentences
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The U.S. has a strong record of assimilating newcomers, from Asians in San Francisco to Irish in New York to Cubans in Miami, and birthright citizenship has been part of that story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Like a lot of veterans, he had trouble assimilating into the civilian world.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
There is no country in the world better at absorbing and assimilating people, and we should take deep patriotic pride in that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
They, too, shifted from plant-based to fungal-based food webs as the main source of their energy, assimilating more than 50 percent brown carbon under warming conditions, compared to 26 percent at control sites.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Returning to District 8 or assimilating into another district would be impossible.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
