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
  • But developers accustomed to CUDA may need to rewrite and optimize substantial portions of their existing code before moving their training workloads to Ascend.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This offers reassurance to viewers accustomed to his voice during baseball's biggest moments.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of accustom
Verb
  • First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of habituate
Verb
  • The court clarified that children born in countries that automatically grant citizenship at birth — including the United States — retain their Italian citizenship even if their parents naturalize there.
    — Giada Zampano, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 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
Verb
  • Now sensing an opening, Lowe has sought to form an alliance with Farage, conditioned on Farage accepting some of Restore’s more extreme policies.
    — Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Boron nitride gives the formula its silky slip and creates a blurring effect, while avocado oil adds conditioning moisture so a matte doesn’t look like skin is parched.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of condition
Verb
  • While the celebrations had to be taken indoors due to rain and speeches were intermingled with thunder, the school’s new gymnasium was packed with smiling families, students and area school officials on Thursday afternoon.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The tale unfolds in many time frames—Sterling’s memory-fraught quest for speed, the troubles of her early adulthood, even echoes of chidhood—which intermingle freely on the screen.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of intermingle
Verb
  • The brand’s all-inclusive family resorts don't all commingle in the same few mega-popular destinations.
    — Gina Kramer, USA Today, 25 July 2026
  • Poor documentation, commingling funds or informal decision-making can weaken that protection.
    — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of commingle

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