as in to accustom
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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
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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
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
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
Verb
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By now, Moore, of Wisconsin, is accustomed to working while Miller sleeps either on her lap, laying over her shoulder, or cuddled up with a blanket.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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But Piker, like many other streamers, is accustomed to speaking glibly about serious matters.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 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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These bulbs form clumps that quickly naturalize in woodland gardens or lawns.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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Arendt argued that such a view naturalizes anti-Semitism, counterintuitively suggesting its legitimacy.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Moreover, the dissociation process is conditioned on Debtor's commencement of a bankruptcy case, the precise situation that § 541(c) is intended to address.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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That process typically involves progressing from conditioning work to non-contact drills before being cleared for full contact.—
Grant Afseth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The scrawled text intermingles with the yellow lines emanating from the eyes, further extending the emotional narrative.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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There are classic fashion spreads on coats and must-have bags, intermingled with more surprising, niche stories, like a profile on the French design collective Inventaire or an interview with emerging photographer Jude Lartey.—
Fiona Sinclair Scott,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Literary, philosophical, aviatic, and geometric references commingle to enhance Jacobs’ visual narratives achieved through an artistic process that connects art and nature at intense physical and metaphysical levels.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Scientists considered the possibility that Miller's remains may have been commingled in the grave or misprocessed and misidentified in the 1940s.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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