indoctrinate
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"Smartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people", says Mr Williams.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
Now he’s emerged as a particularly vocal Muslim advocate against what he calls an attempt to indoctrinate children.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023
“The purpose is not to indoctrinate them or guide them in some kind of political philosophy. … The story is so much more complex than simply White people versus Black people,” Higginbotham said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
Now 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has a full week to indoctrinate McCaffrey into an offense that includes receiver/running back Deebo Samuel and tight end George Kittle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
He corresponds with the accredited official representatives, and he sees the unofficial, the people he can learn from and the people he can indoctrinate.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
"That's how manipulative it is - it indoctrinates you."
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
I'm thinking about the jurisprudence that, even more directly if more subtly, has expanded First Amendment protections of the commercial speech that indoctrinates us, 24/7, to embrace narrow, self-interested strategies of "self-improvement" and protection.
From Salon ● May 29, 2022
There is so much literature and culture that indoctrinates all humans, and the disempowered, to repress their justified rage and righteous anger.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
No one indoctrinates when he is under observation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Your fair daughter was but as ever preparing beforehand with me the tasks with which she so kindly indoctrinates her little sisters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Again the U.S. hit a brick wall called Europe and a team of players for whom the World Cup assignment is an indoctrinated dream from Day One.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Once a viewer is indoctrinated, however, they may find it difficult to refrain from puzzling over its message.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
Maybe this is just because I was indoctrinated through three years of law school, and because my career hangs on it, but I have to think that the law matters.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2024
I’ve often joked I was the perfect age to be indoctrinated.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
But on this expedition he had been cast in the role of invincible guide, there to look after me and the other clients; we had been specifically indoctrinated not to question our guides’ judgment.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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The usual assumption is that professors are indoctrinating students, but that’s too simple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ultimately, “everyone is capable of indoctrinating themselves at any time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
Chaplin’s character ultimately meets a terrible fate for leading on the men and indoctrinating their children with ideas that challenge the family order.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
Moreover, she presently came in sight of Val and Fergus supremely happy over a castle on the beach, and evidently indoctrinating the two little Varleys with some of the dramatic sports of Silverfold.
From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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