assimilative

Example Sentences

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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

A new exhibition there, for example, “California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area From the Gold Rush to the Present,” is an affirmation of religious experimentation and assimilative possibility.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2012

Its real implication may be found in the assimilative genius of the Catholic Church, consecrating but not effacing local altars; transforming, but not destroying, local pieties.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper