indoctrinated

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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

The central character had been "indoctrinated by voices" like Andrew Tate's and "voices a lot more dangerous than Andrew Tate's", one of its writers, Jack Thorne told Radio 4's Front Row.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

“It was not until he got indoctrinated into the Goon Squad cult that he briefly became a person that nobody recognized,” Jeffery Reynolds, one of Mr. Opdyke’s lawyers, said.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024

As a result, Descartes, indoctrinated with the Aristotelian philosophy, denied the existence of the vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife