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

The published correspondence of the two men prove that Wagner studied the manuscripts of Liszt's symphonic poems carefully, and, as we must acknowledge, with wonderful assimilative discrimination.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James