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indoctrination

[in-dok-truh-ney-shuhn] / ɪnˌdɒk trəˈneɪ ʃən /
NOUN
propagandism
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It’s a piece of working Party doctrine—Xi unveiled it in 2017 and made it the centerpiece of an indoctrination campaign every cadre had to recite.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Due to their early indoctrination, she believes they will be even more hardline than their fathers.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

This means defending the university not as a corporate entity or site of theocratic indoctrination but as a democratic commons.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 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

It is doubtful if, outside the Naval Academy at Annapolis, any group of Americans ever received a more thorough indoctrination before setting foot on a catboat.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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