assimilated

past tense of assimilate

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Recent Examples of assimilated The cowardly, devious Turgeniev has assimilated to the comforts of the West —that alone is enough for Fyodor to detest him. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assimilated
Verb
  • For example, in Gaines County, Texas, the epicenter of the 2025 West Texas outbreak, kindergarteners’ measles vaccination rate was 82 percent compared with about 93 percent nationally.
    Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Whether taken on its own or compared with another women’s-rage show like the recent Furious, The Lizzie Borden Story has all the depth of a papercut.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Being understood may feel surprisingly different from being agreed with, and possibly much more useful.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But board books are understood more clearly to be for a younger audience, often one that can’t read themselves.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The structure is essentially a 'village' of nine exhibition pavilions integrated with courtyards, and connected by a corridor covered by a distinctive ribbon-like roof that defines the Suzhou Industrial Park skyline.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Gemini models are going to be deeply integrated with the software, ready to work on your screen context with a cursor wiggle.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • And even when cannabis was prohibited, neither sentencing guidelines nor the public equated its dangers with crack.
    Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • His daughter, Rashan Ali, said many people knew her father through football, but his influence extended well beyond the field.
    Jamal Goss, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Phillip and Makenzie choreographed the sequence using yarn so the dancers knew where each laser would be.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Anti-reflective coatings can also be incorporated where required.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Reclaimed materials were also incorporated, including a front door salvaged from Oxford’s Trinity College.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements.
    Sarah DiGregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
  • Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The farm provided the courts and CFIA with nothing that either institution recognized as serious science.
    J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • From fashion and design to food and manufacturing, Italian excellence is recognized and admired all over the world.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Assimilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assimilated. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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