assimilation
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About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
And he’s becoming more of an Earthman — the dangers of assimilation are a specific Season 1 plot point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
But critics believe this new law will cement Xi's push toward assimilation.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
In this long history of forced English-language assimilation, Puerto Rico remains an outlier.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."
From Time Magazine Archive
We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
From The Church and Modern Life by Washington Gladden
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