as in to accustom
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Recent Examples of acculturate
Anne’s mother, Edith, continued to speak German, and, by all accounts, struggled to acculturate to her new environment.
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Time, 30 Sep. 2025
To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
—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
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
Time, 30 Sep. 2025
To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
—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
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
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The decision to close businesses early has also changed to the lifestyle for Egyptians accustomed to being able to buy virtually anything at any time, especially in big cities like Cairo and Alexandria.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Her senior season, 2020-21, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and though her high school team picked up exhibition games here and there to keep players active, Fudd went two full years without competing at the level to which she was accustomed.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The wildlife team tends to the cubs while wearing bear suits to avoid habituating the cubs to humans.—
Isabel Yip,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Many wanted to partake in this life (preferably on the inside of the buildings), and some prominent influencers—such as the manosphere’s high priest of misogyny and homosociality, Andrew Tate—have moved here and seem ready to naturalize.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
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Ghazali first entered the U.S. in 2011 and was later naturalized into a U.S. citizen in 2016 during the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News.—
Alexandra Koch , Efrat Lachter , Michael Ruiz , Bill Melugin,
FOXNews.com,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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One reason why elections in March are so widely ignored is that people are conditioned to think that high-stakes elections are in November, with the August primaries hopefully not far behind.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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We’ve been conditioned and indoctrinated with a cyber-sense of how to consume music.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
31 Mar. 2026
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Metaphors, absurdities and seriousness intermingle in this production from New Forms LA and directed by Marissa Pattullo.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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Repeat cutting a few of the oldest branches at a time for the next couple of years until there’s adequate new growth intermingling with the old growth.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The third-term congresswoman is facing numerous ethics charges, including failing to follow campaign finance laws; commingling campaign, personal and business funds; and using her position to benefit allies.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Mar. 2026
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The threat by Tehran puts at risk both electrical supplies and water in the Gulf Arab states, particularly as the desert nations commingle their power stations with desalination plants crucial for supplying drinking water.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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