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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Both are willful, impulsive, and accustomed to being in charge.Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Getting to the large-scale advanced AI that we are accustomed to takes a whole lot of resources and an enormous highly skilled workforce to devise.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 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 United States government hosts the ceremonies year-round, but there is an extra flurry of activity during Constitution Week, in late September; this year, more than seventeen thousand new citizens were naturalized that week in some four hundred ceremonies across the country.Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
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In Arizona, where Biden defeated Trump in 2020 by just over 10,000 votes, over 31,000 citizens were naturalized over the period.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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The formulation also contains conditioning moringa oil and a color-preserving antioxidant complex, fueled by sunflower seed extracts, known as Integrity 41.Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Nov. 2024
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The formula also boasts exfoliating salicylic acid, soothing menthol, conditioning rosemary oil, and anti-inflammatory ginger extract.Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024
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The show has its moments of comedy intermingled with the action and drama.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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Additionally, human development in fire-prone regions, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where neighborhoods intermingle with forest and grassland vegetation, has introduced new, highly flammable fuels.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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But it's commingled with misinformation, conjecture and nonsense.Mike Allen, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Spanish and English commingled like old friends: Which part of Mexico?John Paul Brammer, Bon Appétit, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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