How to Use assimilation in a Sentence

assimilation

noun
  • But the move makes sense as a piece of the larger assimilation puzzle.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • During that time, he was abused, all in the name of assimilation.
    Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
  • This is the end goal of the four-century long assimilation ploy.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 3 July 2020
  • Amid the swirling sand and the pell-mell assimilation of the stragglers, one motorcycle skids to a halt.
    Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • In Ilnytsya, the process of assimilation has gone a bit slowly for the workers of Temp Ukraine.
    David L. Stern, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Guilt is a sentiment that has been taught to us in part by assimilation.
    Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 3 July 2018
  • But the agenda of assimilation, the blueprint of nation-building in the U.S., is at its core anti-Black.
    Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Add assimilation to the bucket of typical teenage woes, and good luck with that.
    Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2017
  • But the show never takes the time to dive into the why behind both of their choices, such as assimilation or self-denial.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • As Earth stands on the verge of assimilation, things start to go very wrong, and Avigail must deal with a conspiracy head-on.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
  • Opponents see the region, and the bridges and roads built to connect the cities, as a way for Beijing to force assimilation and exert control.
    Sherisse Pham, CNN, 29 June 2019
  • For my father, baseball seemed like the purest form of assimilation.
    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Looking back, forfeiting the language passed on to me from my parents was the cost of assimilation.
    Jenny Liao, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
  • What are the steps required to conduct a new leader assimilation process?
    Dennis Kight, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • His win at the nationals has also helped the assimilation process.
    Matt Majendie, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The scene illustrated the pressures for assimilation in the region, even as the most pointed aspects of the crackdown are scaled down.
    Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The camps were just the most famous aspect of the CCP’s broad-spectrum program of assimilation and repression.
    James Millward, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2023
  • What Chua was describing, of course, was a process of assimilation.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
  • The NBC-Peacock assimilation remains a bit more baffling to me.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This is the tip of the sword on which the question rests: At what point does representation become assimilation?
    Jeanna Kadlec, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Both works depict how racial violence might be veiled by the rhetoric of assimilation.
    Wendy S. Walters, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Full assimilation was my goal and sticking out was avoided at all costs.
    Jen Wei Warren, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2021
  • Opponents see the bridge as a means by which to force assimilation and exert control.
    Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 4 May 2018
  • The goal of these schools was forced assimilation, with children — some as young as four — often stripped of their names, their long hair, their native language, and their culture.
    Maggie Freleng, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
  • For kids glued to the World Cup, the focus shouldn’t be on the inexcusable fakery among athletes taking a dive, but the assimilation of cultures.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
  • Conflicts over assimilation roil the family and put them at odds with the town’s numerous racist jerks.
    Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The status quo solution, which is assimilation, is part of the problem.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • As with Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom, there have been disputes over the schools’ philosophy, with some adults claiming that their purpose is to facilitate the assimilation of minorities.
    The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The researchers then used data assimilation to combine these two lines of evidence and create a more accurate curve of how Earth's temperature has varied over the past 485 million years.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024

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