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acculturate

verb

Definition of acculturate

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

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The hope is that the Bosnia and Herzegovina international will already be accustomed to Jaissle’s demands and can therefore quickly acclimatise to the German’s methods, even if Dedic is yet to play in the Premier League.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
By now, everyone is accustomed to the idea that technology has disconnected us from the world and one another.

— Ian Bogost, Time, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of accustom

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Both lures are intended to attract bears while not providing them with actual food that can habituate them to humans.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026

Definition of habituate

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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

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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

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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

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