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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
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
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
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturate
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Others, in a region long accustomed to extreme weather, were kept up by heavy bursts of rain and earsplitting cracks of thunder that shook buildings.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
12 July 2025
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Treasury teams accustomed to batch processing and end-of-day reconciliation must adapt to continuous monitoring and real-time decision-making.—
Dave Glaser,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Verb
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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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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,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Trump made clear during Tuesday’s tour that naturalized U.S. citizens — who live in so many communities in Central Florida — may be next to face detention and deportation.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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Some species now naturalized in the United Kingdom, for example—from apples and asparagus to fallow deer and pheasants—arrived with Roman conquerors.—
Krista Langlois,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
Verb
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The Assembly Line Mindset Many developers have been conditioned to work on a digital assembly line driven by velocity.—
Deepa Shekhar,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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And that, and his advanced age, have clearly conditioned possible succession plans.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
17 July 2025
Verb
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The list goes on, both for objects and fabrics that will intermingle on the shop floor, and online.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
3 July 2025
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Metallica opens show with AC/DC tune and classic movie scenes At 8:55, house lights shut off and the stadium roared in anticipation as fan photos intermingled with video footage of the crowd scrolled across six free-standing podium screens that circled the empty in-the-round stage.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Verb
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Many Southern California residents and environmental groups had already objected to sending wildfire ash and debris to local landfills that were not designed to handle high levels of contaminants and potentially hazardous waste that are often commingled in wildfire debris.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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How are women commingling a broader sense of business purpose with performance, and thereby changing the face of modern corporate life?—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturate. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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