assimilating

present participle of assimilate
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as in comparing
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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Recent Examples of assimilating Despite personality friction within the reggae-assimilating band even after decades of inactivity as a unit, The Police successfully undertook a lucrative reunion world tour from 2007-2008 that reportedly earned the group over $360 million, becoming one of the highest grossing tours of all-time. Mike Alleyne, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 This model provides an opportunity for collaboration and for assimilating and sharpening all the skills covered in the course. Filomena Nunes, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025 Emery intended to pile pressure on their back four, pushing both full-backs high — a shift from his usual policy of keeping three defenders behind the ball in possession — and, pertinently, assimilating pace into the attack. Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 The next challenge is assimilating to life in a ballpark built for minor league baseball. Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025 The schools played a crucial and often harsh role in assimilating American Indians into non-Indigenous society. Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024 The policy, aimed at assimilating Native Americans and reducing federal obligations, stripped tribes of land, funding, and services. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 Not all aged societies, however, will be capable of assimilating young immigrants or turning them into loyal and productive citizens. Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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  • The site develops a compatibility score after comparing your quiz with other daters’—you can see this score when viewing their individual profiles.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Getting quotes and comparing them is the best way to understand if this is your situation or not.
    Liz Knueven, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • And without understanding these models at a deep level, they can’t be trusted to do anything where failure is not an option.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • While there’s no single biomarker that can perfectly predict disease or mortality, there are many that reign supreme in understanding women’s overall health and disease risk.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • For adQuadrant, integrating AI branding tools significantly elevated creative output, by enabling quicker ad experimentation and empowering the team to consistently deliver impactful campaigns.
    Derya Matras, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • It’s command structure also transcends traditional nation-state borders by integrating Iranian, Lebanese and Iraqi commanders.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Carro, referring prior case law, said equating Mangione’s motives with terrorism risks trivializing the term.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For their part, Israeli leaders discovered the political utility of equating such hostility with Europe’s fascist past.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • For the first 330 days, Goldberg-Polin fought to save her son’s life, not knowing he was executed on day 328.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That dominance, with Chapman often waiting in the wings, gave Cora the advantage of managing seven-inning games, knowing any lead was likely safe over the final two frames.
    Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • House District 70 includes portions of North Little Rock and Sherwood, incorporating the Arkansas National Guard's Camp Robinson in the north and west.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Cleaver's Fifth District, which encompasses much of Kansas City, will be split across three different districts, diluting Democratic voting strength by incorporating Republican-leaning rural areas.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
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  • Though historians have called for further research before making claims, the proposal of a script rooted in sign language might open the chance to explore a new way of deciphering Mayan art and show the ancient civilization to be even more sophisticated and efficient than scholars even knew.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Now, a team of international astronomers has succeeded in deciphering the gravitational wave signal, GW190412, to determine more about the collision and the resulting event that sent an infant black hole hurtling through space.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • According to the Migration Policy Institute, more than 230,000 Coloradans have difficulty comprehending and communicating in English.
    Micki Olson, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The way humanity finally got to the level of ChatGPT was not by comprehending intelligence well enough to craft an intelligent mind.
    Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025

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