acculturate
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Today we have flipped the bit: We treat machines just as mechanically as we ever did, but we are increasingly reliant on them to babysit, educate, and acculturate our children.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2019
The duty of new migrants is to integrate, acculturate and adhere to Australian values of democracy, tolerance and fairness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2018
Within the walls of our middle school, these students found safety and an environment where they could process their trials, learn English and begin to acculturate to life in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
As part of the government's effort to acculturate her, she puts in a few unpaid hours at a perfume shop in the downtown mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Although she was buoyed to leave a union filled with anger and loneliness, she now entered single parenthood, and discovered that no arrangement of life contains the perfection she’d long been acculturated to expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Some Japanese women are also acculturated to cover their mouths when eating or laughing.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
We already have a category of movies that we expect to artfully, if painfully edify—think of 12 Years a Slave, or Schindler’s List—but we’re not acculturated to it on television.
From Slate ● May 30, 2019
As a child grows, he or she becomes acculturated to all of the sounds in their environment.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
It was difficult acculturating to life in the United States after immigrating from the Philippines when she was 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
The following year, Lollapalooza filled fields nationwide not just with amazing bands, but stalls selling hemp products and Greenpeace donation booths, acculturating a generation to the idea of voting their ethics with their wallets.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2013
“Utica is a model for a small community in terms of integrating and acculturating emerging populations.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
