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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Levesque is accustomed to WWE’s Monday Night RAW bringing 1.5 million viewers to USA, a cable network recently offloaded by its parent company, so the benefits of moving his weekly live telecast to Netflix seem to outweigh any foreseeable costs.Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2024
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The company had been accustomed to having a lot of autonomy under the Fox regime.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 26 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 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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Dunlap explains that women’s reluctance to talk about money starts in early childhood when we’re conditioned to be nurturers and put others first.Katy McFee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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But no two neurodiverse people are the same, and the toolkit doesn't take into account how conditioned people have become, having to 'mask' their real self throughout school and then into the workforce.New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
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Another variable to consider in all of this: The Boras Corporation represents many of the top free agents — and they are intermingled and can affect each other.Jim Bowden, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Enjoy the company of friends as well as intermingling with groups, clubs and organizations.Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2024
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And flu season is raising the troubling prospect that bird flu could commingle with seasonal influenza.Will Stone, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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Listings on popular ticketing websites, including StubHub, for the Legacy Reunion show use images of the original Earth Wind & Fire members while other sites commingle listings for the two acts, the suit claimed.Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
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