acculturate

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Recent Examples of acculturate Anne’s mother, Edith, continued to speak German, and, by all accounts, struggled to acculturate to her new environment. Time, 30 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • El Mercadito, a new weekly outdoor market near San Jose’s SAP Center, is attracting both visitors and vendors accustomed to selling their products at the venerable Berryessa Flea Market, whose future is uncertain.
    Asher Rae Aguirre, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • Even for a party accustomed to searing debates between progressives and moderates, the schism over Israel has been blistering.
    Steve Peoples, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • The Associated Press profiled the woman in 2024 as part of a story about how many international adoptees were left without citizenship because their American adoptive parents failed to naturalize them.
    Claire Galofaro, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • In 1790, Congress passed a federal law so that only free white immigrants could naturalize as citizens.
    Daisy Hernández, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Evolutionary pressures have conditioned us to prefer physically healthy mates who are more likely to produce healthy offspring and to be able to help raise them.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
  • We have been conditioned for this without noticing.
    Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The intermingling smells of sizzling hot dogs, urine and marijuana wafted through the open windows.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
  • As a result, any DNA that finds its way inside the cell has the potential to become intermingled with the genome and be incorporated permanently.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Citizens become commodities; technology increases the power of an already powerful few; pop culture serves up mechanized slop; truth and lies commingle.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Tens of thousands of feet below the surface, dead or dying whales have drifted to the vast graveyard, their bones commingling across an area measuring approximately 746 miles (1,200 kilometers) long.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 12 June 2026

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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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