ASSIMILATED Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

assimilated

verb

past tense of assimilate

as in compared

to describe as similar assimilated the 19th-century American captains of industry and commerce to the medieval barons who exorbitantly taxed shipping along the Rhine

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contrasted

as in understood

to have a clear idea of still trying to assimilate the doctor's diagnosis of my heart condition

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as in integrated

to make a part of a body or system social workers will need time to assimilate the new arrivals into the community

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Recent Examples of assimilated Warner’s sports properties are being assimilated into Skydance, but some aspects of the company’s approach to games and contests may continue. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026 The news comes after Prime Video assimilated MX Player into its service earlier this year. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026 Something Sculptural As the name would suggest, the Rodin stool from Arhaus has a sculptural appeal—it can be easily assimilated into a sophisticated bar setup, or used to dress up a more casual breakfast bar. — Kelly Dawson, Architectural Digest, 17 Aug. 2026 The trio has assimilated perfectly, down to their graying wigs. — Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 13 July 2026 Many of these children not only survived, but learned the skills and lifeways of their captors, often becoming fully assimilated into the cultures that had once seemed utterly foreign. — Literary Hub, 8 July 2026 Chef Kevin Liao also distinguishes the kitchen with his illuminating Toisanese specialties, a regional subgenre of Cantonese cuisine either rarely seen in Los Angeles or so deeply assimilated into more generalized Cantonese menus that its distinctions are hard to parse. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Those students will be assimilated into their home campuses. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026 Another appearance in print occurs in 1880, in the memoirs of a Canadian missionary called Sheldon Jackson—also a prominent founder of schools where Native children were forcibly assimilated. — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026

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By some metrics, Black people -- who have historically made up a larger portion of government employees compared with their share of the population -- were hit hardest, the Post found.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
And across industries, Gallup and Stand Together found that 13% of employees with a strong sense of purpose at work report frequent burnout, compared with 38% of those with low purpose.

— Annette Logan-Parker, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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There is no public confirmation that this particular missile has been integrated.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Rather than eliminating that need immediately, tokenization may initially add another layer that has to be integrated with the systems already in place.

— Isabella Gao, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

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Blackwell equated Robinson’s impact to that of Sidney Poitier, Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
The character is a type-A perfect student who never has a single hair out of place — a way of being that Gerber has stepped into after years in the fashion industry where perfection is often equated with sublime beauty.

— Michel Ghanem, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

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Heo Kang Il, an elite defector who managed a North Korean restaurant in China and in 2016 brought 12 of his staff with him to South Korea, knew people subjected to revolutionization and was subjected to it once himself.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Everyone who knew and worked with him was familiar with his stories, often told in a regional Texas twang and often more than once – and occasionally with a remarkable addendum.

— Keith McDermott, Vanity Fair, 30 Oct. 2026

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Montaner had also seen El Cid, the 1961 Charlton Heston epic, and the film’s towers, period costumes, jousting, sword fights, and knights on horseback were all incorporated into the show.

— Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
That canted, seven-sided building boldly incorporated a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter jet into its sheet metal and stucco-clad architecture.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

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But a more apt comparison might be the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, in which Medieval scholars deciphered the staggering ruins of Classical Rome.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2026
Re-creating the Herculaneum scrolls To date, one entire scroll and passages from others have been deciphered, largely thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge, a project launched in 2023 that encourages researchers to decode scrolls for cash prizes.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of deciphered

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The Tentative List, as the name suggests, comprises natural and cultural properties that a country considers to have the potential to be recognized as World Heritage.

— Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
Miami recognized its issues right away, and some of UM’s defenders wasted no time trying to correct them.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

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