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assimilative

[uh-sim-uh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv] / əˈsɪm əˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv /


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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2025

Some community members who attended the school in the 1980s — after it abandoned assimilative measures and embraced Lakota language and culture — have fond memories of the experience.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2021

In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2016

The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

From New York Times Nov. 18, 2015

The alimentive system consists of the stomach, intestines, alimentary canal and every part of the assimilative apparatus.

From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Benedict, Elsie Lincoln




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