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indoctrination

[in-dok-truh-ney-shuhn] / ɪnˌdɒk trəˈneɪ ʃən /
NOUN
propagandism
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It also became a key component of the indoctrination of the Revolutionary Guard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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

Everyone has to agree, it's really been drummed into us — and I went to business school, I've been through this indoctrination process — that everyone works for the shareholder.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 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

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




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