as in to accustom
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Recent Examples of acculturate
The art world is acculturated to the notion that biennials should highlight new narratives but seems to presume that those artists must also be living and relatively young.
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Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
This growth is no longer coming from new immigrants naturalizing — it’s being driven by the birth of new generations of Latino and Hispanic Americans who are becoming further removed from the immigrant experience and, in turn, becoming assimilated and acculturated to the American experience.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
But Roy believes that the situation today is different, because there is nothing for us to get acculturated to.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
Crews were prefabricated communities, able to accommodate the constant turnover of individuals and to acculturate new recruits on the job.
—James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
Ethnoburb immigrants are generally nonwhite, have minimal desire to acculturate into whiteness, and some of them are already educated and affluent.
—Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
Inspired and/or appalled by the experiences of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, Barnes imagines a dialogue in which a Black duchess helps acculturate a Black duchess-to-be to her new position.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
Sadness, resentment and burnout aren’t going to be shamed or ridiculed away by the part of you acculturated to scoff at such pain.
—Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
This growth is no longer coming from new immigrants naturalizing — it’s being driven by the birth of new generations of Latino and Hispanic Americans who are becoming further removed from the immigrant experience and, in turn, becoming assimilated and acculturated to the American experience.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
But Roy believes that the situation today is different, because there is nothing for us to get acculturated to.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
Crews were prefabricated communities, able to accommodate the constant turnover of individuals and to acculturate new recruits on the job.
—James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
Ethnoburb immigrants are generally nonwhite, have minimal desire to acculturate into whiteness, and some of them are already educated and affluent.
—Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
Inspired and/or appalled by the experiences of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, Barnes imagines a dialogue in which a Black duchess helps acculturate a Black duchess-to-be to her new position.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
Sadness, resentment and burnout aren’t going to be shamed or ridiculed away by the part of you acculturated to scoff at such pain.
—Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
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In the Arctic, most communities have a population that’s majority Inuit, so the White folks in charge are in the minority – that’s a dynamic the majority of North Americans are not accustomed to.—
Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2025
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Because the priorities are different — public interest for the government and profits for businesses — privatization can mean everyday services run differently than people are accustomed to.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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The best way to further boost Pakistan's democracy will be to habituate the military to democratic norms and raise the costs of undermining democratic governance.—
Aqil Shah,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Apr. 2011
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The experiment was conducted in eight meters of open water at a research site in the Mediterranean Sea where the local wild fish are habituated to the presence of divers.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Derivative citizenship has become an important pathway to citizenship for thousands of children of immigrants who naturalize annually, helping ensure family unity in the U.S. immigration system.—
Albinson Linares,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2025
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The question's sensitivity is particularly evident in the lower response rates among households with at least one non-U.S. citizen, U.S.-born Latino or naturalized U.S. citizen who was born outside Latin America.—
Hansi Lo Wang,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2025
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For the past decade, technology companies have conditioned buyers to make purchasing expensive gadgets an annual affair through services such as Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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Beyond performing the majority of domestic tasks, women are conditioned to take on the additional burden of coordinating the household — tasks that are almost always invisible, but exceptionally crucial to the smooth functioning of the family.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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They are believed to intermingle with DNA and play a role in regulating gene activity.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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The Georgia Julep intermingles the fresh mint with the juicy sweetness of peach liqueur.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
11 Mar. 2025
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Pérez was accused of commingling the traffickers’ profits with legitimate revenue from ticket and refreshment sales.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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All that commingled with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars and Sugarland Express and Close Encounters and Network and All the President’s Men.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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