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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Far more important than level of playing ability is the sport provides an opportunity to be with fellow veterans in a team setting, which is something they were accustomed in the military.Tom Layberger, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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That means that to profit and not cannibalize console and PC sales, publishers need to sell games for much higher up-front costs than mobile players are accustomed to.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2024
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Delaney Prince, the campground host at Pine City describes Victor as calm, and totally habituated to the presence of humans and their food.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
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Naturally habituating the jaguars to safari cruisers—which is not about taming the cats, but keeping them wild and free, yet also comfortable around the vehicles—does more than ensure sightings.Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2024
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The report says at least 67 of the 314 children identified have been naturalized as Russian citizens, though the researchers say the actual number is likely higher.Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
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Adorno, for his part, was more interested in the ways in which the brute facts of commodity exchange were bolstered by myths that naturalized the capitalist world order, making any challenge to it seem as pointless as challenging the laws of motion.Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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We’ve been conditioned to want hyper-personalization from our digital surroundings, with convenience and customizable environments the spoils of our age.Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Cell phones are quite literally designed to be addictive, and we’ve become conditioned to use them for far more than placing phone calls and sending text messages.Jess Cording, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Similarly, here, the personal journey of the Paiva family is intermingled with the country’s changing identity.Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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The present tense of Black, working-class Alabama was intermingled with images from the archive: movie clips, ephemera, lost snatches of historical life.K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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The disease can be spread by contact with infected birds, commingling with wild birds or their droppings, equipment or clothing worn by anyone working with the animals.Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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The lawsuit claims that Myosin, which is named in the complaint, commingled funds with Spellbinder.Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
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