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Recent Examples of acculturate
To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
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Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
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Renaissance people weren’t conscious egalitarians, but they were accustomed to open contests and competitions, one of the hallmarks of modernity.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Mama Bear taps into a market of parents accustomed to this vigilance who realize their access changes when their kids turn 18 and are subject to medical- and student-privacy laws.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
27 July 2025
Verb
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Campers were warned against leaving footwear outside their tents to avoid habituating the fox to humans.—
Ruffin Prevost,
AFAR Media,
18 July 2025
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Just like black bears, coyotes can be habituated and lose their natural fear of people through intentional or unintentional feeding.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Trump made clear during Tuesday’s tour that naturalized U.S. citizens — who live in so many communities in Central Florida — may be next to face detention and deportation.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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Of late, in a rare instance of going further than the right-wing Project 2025 itself, Trump has been testing out the notion of kicking U.S. citizens, naturalized and born here, out of the country too.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
7 July 2025
Verb
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The Assembly Line Mindset Many developers have been conditioned to work on a digital assembly line driven by velocity.—
Deepa Shekhar,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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And that, and his advanced age, have clearly conditioned possible succession plans.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
17 July 2025
Verb
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In the guest rooms, expect dark greens intermingled with melon-orange tones and textiles sourced from small shops along the coast.—
Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
23 July 2025
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The list goes on, both for objects and fabrics that will intermingle on the shop floor, and online.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
3 July 2025
Verb
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These highways can change how animals are able to disperse and commingle.—
Elizabeth Carlen,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Plus, there was apparently some evidence presented to the trial court that the debtors and the nine LLCs had commingled funds and assets.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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