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 court said: "The family strongly support the provision of religious education provided it does not amount to indoctrination."

From BBC • Nov. 19, 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

But these steps may only be delaying the inevitable: Many North Koreans don’t buy the Kim regime’s indoctrination, which risibly portrays North Korea as being a “utopia surrounded by a hellish outside world.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Though tribal indoctrination was still the focus of our curriculum in Standard Four, a few new and challenging subjects were introduced.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane