as in to acculturate
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Anne’s mother, Edith, continued to speak German, and, by all accounts, struggled to acculturate to her new environment.—
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Time,
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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