assimilative

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Vladeck and Litman told me that the floating clinic would avoid the Assimilative Crimes Act.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022

This argument is based on an obscure federal law known as the Assimilative Crimes Act that adopts some state criminal law on federal land, but only when there’s no federal policy to the contrary.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2022

We may call this stage the stage of the Assimilative Republic.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Republic, Plato’s, 142 Republic, the Assimilative, 187 Republics, 187 et seq.,

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Assimilative Thinking.—It is this type of thinking that occupies us when we seek to appropriate new facts or ideas and understand them; that is, relate them to knowledge already on hand.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert