indoctrinate

"Smartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people", says Mr Williams.

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

In the film, Gosling’s Ken — Barbie’s anxiety-ridden, try-hard, beta-status boyfriend — is revitalized by the patriarchy of the real world and returns to indoctrinate everyone in Barbieland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Packer added that questions posed revealed a lack of understanding about the topics at hand, such as whether the course would indoctrinate students into “Black Panther thinking.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

Do they think we want to indoctrinate kids?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022

This theory is described in Admiral Tirpitz's book, with an account of the efforts made to indoctrinate with it the people of Germany.

From Before the War by Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane

"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

Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"We've been brought up with this ridiculous 'good girl' stuff… indoctrinated in this idea of being good, polite, kind, thoughtful, caring," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

He relaxed strict dress codes for agents, recruited female agents and pointedly hired people from outside the agency – who were not indoctrinated in the Hoover culture – for administrative posts.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

The parents say that their kids are being indoctrinated, even though they’re just being exposed to narratives about the world around them.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025

Was it simply expected that he would become indoctrinated into the blinding passion of the Mojo mystique just like everyone else?

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Like avian Fagins, the birds were indoctrinating others to a life of crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

In the suits, Wershe accused officers from the FBI and Detroit Police Department of indoctrinating him into a “criminal society” as a child.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

He wanted no trouble—they had spent a year with him on Earth, indoctrinating that.

From Earthsmith by Stephen Marlowe