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assimilation

[uh-sim-uh-lay-shuhn] / əˌsɪm əˈleɪ ʃən /




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They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

His assimilation into the U.S. has been a smashing success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

For her, assimilation took the form of middle-class attainment: a nice home, Coach purses and a leased C-Class Mercedes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Her family’s distress increased in the late 1890s as the U.S. government intensified its push for the culmination of its assimilation campaign: allotment.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The broader truth of the recent waves of immigration, the truth of a million small assimilations and adjustments, was easily lost in the tabloid terrors.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2016

These little quirks of idiom not only give the poem force and freshness, they seem to suggest the assimilations that the speakers are already sharing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2010

"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is only by slow vital assimilations that man is ameliorated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various




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