as in to accustom
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Recent Examples of acculturate
To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
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Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
—Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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
Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
—Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
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Stray Kids return to the United Kingdom’s charts this week with brand new album Karma, and the set proves to be a strong seller in its opening frame – something the band is accustomed to.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Broadcasters have been accustomed for many years to releasing Nielsen viewership estimates as soon as the day after a program’s debut.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Campers were warned against leaving footwear outside their tents to avoid habituating the fox to humans.—
Ruffin Prevost,
AFAR Media,
18 July 2025
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Just like black bears, coyotes can be habituated and lose their natural fear of people through intentional or unintentional feeding.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
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Snowdrops readily naturalize and are best planted in drifts along woodland edges or under large trees.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
24 Aug. 2025
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Arendt argued that such a view naturalizes anti-Semitism, counterintuitively suggesting its legitimacy.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Even the film’s relentless forward charge — its preference for strict point-making over a more learn at your own pace curriculum — helps to reaffirm its larger argument that schools have been conditioned to process children rather than enrich them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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Newsmax argues that Fox has wielded a similar playbook to keep it from growing, bullying distributors from carrying its channels by conditioning carriage deals on them agreeing not to carry competing right-leaning news channels.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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Looking ahead, as hardware and software become even more intermingled, the CTO saw a clear answer to how the teams could work together.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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The Lincoln Avenue display also has American flags, which Farrell said are intermingled.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
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Scientists considered the possibility that Miller's remains may have been commingled in the grave or misprocessed and misidentified in the 1940s.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
16 Aug. 2025
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Fantasy and reality commingle on the angler’s plane.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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