inculcate

Example Sentences

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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

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