indoctrination

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The military had four major departments overseeing operations, arms procurement, logistics and indoctrination, and seven major “military regions,” each operating like independent fiefs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

The rationale is that there should be no condition, such as religious indoctrination or required sobriety, on a homeless person receiving housing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

The discomfort may not necessarily seek to compel indoctrination, but it does erase the existence of lives, truths, and histories some would rather forget or disappear.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2025

“I'm so aware that the only reason I think this way is because of my four-year indoctrination in the school of San Francisco,” she says.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024

He had been my teacher during my period of indoctrination and now I realized that I shouldn't have come.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison