inculcate

To tell one’s beads regularly requires a measure of the discipline it is meant to inculcate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

"I think you need to try and inculcate people into an understanding of the structures of governance, how you can engage in those structures."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

As Sagan wrote in his 1985 novel Contact, an awareness of extraterrestrial life would serve to inculcate the “power of the planetary perspective.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2023

It can be more difficult for employers to inculcate values and for workers to learn from one another.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

This year brought a late, travel-related cancellation from the gifted pianist Utsav Lal, who inculcates the Indian classical tradition into his accompaniment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024

Despite being physically gone, Numa continues to narrate the course of the film, a deliberate storytelling choice by Bayona that inculcates the theme of consumption as a type of communion.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

“One of the things about recovery that I think people sometimes overlook is the fact that it inculcates certain values. Be honest. Be accountable. Help other people. Apologize when you’re wrong.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020

“I dare say you have all heard more or less about our scout law and the high principles it inculcates in every boy who promises to obey it,” he said in his pleasant, easy manner.

From Under Boy Scout Colors by Joseph Bushnell Ames

It suggests a household that lacks rules, or plays by rules other than the ones most of us have been inculcated with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

It inculcated a deep, intimidating culture of secrecy among its employees and made them sign aggressive agreements to that effect.

From Slate ● May 30, 2024

At a young age, we are inculcated by our elders — those close to us as well as friends who became aunties, uncles and cousins by polite acclamation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

Not just because it deals with homegrown American Nazism as inculcated at a camp run by the German American Bund in Yaphank, N.Y., from 1936 to 1941.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

If it played a role in disenchanting the world, it did so precisely because it was effectively inculcated among the educated, clerical and lay, male and female.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Authorities also sent Tibetan children to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, educating them predominantly in Mandarin and inculcating Chinese culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

It’s an irresistible ditty that starts by contrasting a text-to-speech voice inculcating on Isaac Newton with Pearce and musician Sharron Kraus singing about the sun’s mass.

From Scientific American ● May 27, 2022

How should they mediate the tensions between inculcating values of robust debate, on the one hand, and of disciplined civility on the other?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021

If the republic depended on civic virtue, women played a crucial public function by inculcating virtue in their sons and husbands.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

He dressed and lived as a Brahmin, roused the curiosity of his adopted brethren, opened school, and taught philosophy, inculcating such practical conclusions as it is unnecessary to specify.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur