acculturate

verb

Definition of acculturatenext
as in to accustom

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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 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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
  1. accustom
  2. habituate
  3. naturalize
  4. condition
  5. intermingle
  6. commingle
Verb
  • That distinction is often lost on international visitors accustomed to restaurants where service costs are already included in menu prices.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Californians are accustomed to legislating by the ballot and often face a list of propositions.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Definition of accustom
Verb
  • The reason for these laws, which exist everywhere grizzlies are found, is that feeding bears can habituate them to humans.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of habituate
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
  • After 1804, however, hundreds of white French people remained in Haiti and were naturalized as Haitian citizens, securing equal rights under Dessalines’ 1805 Haitian constitution.
    — Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
Definition of naturalize
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  • Trainer Cherie DeVaux, the first female to condition a Derby winner, has mapped out a plan for his next start in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on August 29.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • Most are used for stimulating scalp massages that help stimulate blood circulation to hair follicles while deeply moisturizing and conditioning the hair and scalp simultaneously.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Definition of condition
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
Definition of intermingle
Verb
  • Poor documentation, commingling funds or informal decision-making can weaken that protection.
    — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of commingle

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