assimilating

Example Sentences

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“What are young immigrants assimilating to?” he asks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Like a lot of veterans, he had trouble assimilating into the civilian world.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

This type of skepticism continued even as wave after wave of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Jews, Chinese, Mexicans — ended up assimilating.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025

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