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

Rut wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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 teaches the lessons of every-day conduct and inculcates the simplest virtues of truth, earnest effort, and loving affection.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

For public defenders dedicated to the work, or coming into the field with the hypercompetitive spirit inculcated by some law schools, such setbacks can be devastating.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2023

“As a scientist, you get inculcated with the notion that being factually correct and precise is important,” he said, and Mukherjee doesn’t present that rigor.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

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

It could spark useful conversations in those churches, synagogues and mosques that are concerned with inculcating and living out their common values in the world as it is.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 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

His precept had not belied his example, and whilst in strong terms we find him inculcating the permanence of the Law, it is certain that he left no order to disregard it.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard