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

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

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

It not only promotes, it inculcates, distinct mendacity and deceitfulness.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“Susanna inculcated the value of tradition and heritage to everyone she knew.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

A brother inculcated Mr. Arthit; Ms. Thanaporn’s passion was passed down by her father.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

As the children of families that valued scholarly pursuits, Ernest and Merle both were inculcated with the virtues of study and knowledge from an early age.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Our parents taught us to care — and the faculty here seemed to be intent on inculcating into us the fact that we had an obligation to care.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2018

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

Handled judiciously and under the direction of a competent adult guide, it becomes a powerful force for character building, for inculcating self-control.

From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy