inculcate
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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
To inculcate “patriotism” and martial pride, he invited retired soldiers to campus and proposed putting a battle tank on display.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
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
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
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