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assimilative

[uh-sim-uh-lay-tiv, -luh-tiv] / əˈsɪm əˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv /


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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025

“It’s not a straight-up assimilative attempt,” she says.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016

A new exhibition there, for example, “California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area From the Gold Rush to the Present,” is an affirmation of religious experimentation and assimilative possibility.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2012

They appear to have been more ferocious and less assimilative than the other conquering tribes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various




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