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
  • This is the end goal of the four-century long assimilation ploy.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 3 July 2020
  • During that time, he was abused, all in the name of assimilation.
    Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
  • Guilt is a sentiment that has been taught to us in part by assimilation.
    Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • Add assimilation to the bucket of typical teenage woes, and good luck with that.
    Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2017
  • His win at the nationals has also helped the assimilation process.
    Matt Majendie, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • What are the steps required to conduct a new leader assimilation process?
    Dennis Kight, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Full assimilation was my goal and sticking out was avoided at all costs.
    Jen Wei Warren, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2021
  • For my father, baseball seemed like the purest form of assimilation.
    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Both works depict how racial violence might be veiled by the rhetoric of assimilation.
    Wendy S. Walters, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Opponents see the bridge as a means by which to force assimilation and exert control.
    Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 4 May 2018
  • West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wearing pants in the camps is also a form of cultural assimilation.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 17 June 2018
  • Some came to find that no amount of assimilation would win them acceptance in some sectors of society.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Conflicts over assimilation roil the family and put them at odds with the town’s numerous racist jerks.
    Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Schulz’s writing can be seen as a triumph of assimilation.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • My dad was unwilling to talk about his ethnicity and race because of shame and the demands of assimilation.
    New York Times, 12 July 2022
  • Their assimilation is still a work in progress, residents say.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 3 June 2017
  • Allow me one last gasp of my assimilation into patrician ways of old.
    Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The status quo solution, which is assimilation, is part of the problem.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Beyond the waiting game of asylum, there’s the issue of assimilation.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • That’s one of the reasons assimilation is more successful here than anywhere else.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The observations are brought into the models in a process known as data assimilation.
    Samantha Durbin, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • But over the decades, the same forces of assimilation that effected change in previous immigrant groups took hold.
    Anh Do, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The movie is suffused with both love and guilt, a complex portrayal of parenthood with an embittered view of the costs of assimilation.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • 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

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