as in understandings
the act or process of learning or gaining understanding
The dog's rapid assimilation of new tricks pleased his owners.
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Recent Examples of assimilations
Some K-pop songs, just in their surface-level presentation, put their cross-cultural assimilations up front.
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Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 29 Jan. 2026
Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assimilations
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Gelb said the broad crime rate decreases have made some criminologists question historic understandings of what drives trends in violent crime and how to battle it.—
Claudia Lauer,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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And as states started to abandon Common Core, school controversies began to focus less on standards and achievement than on competing understandings of America itself.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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As a means of generating its own conceptions of goodness that feel compelling to most human beings, its record is quite mixed, perhaps because that’s not what it was ever designed to do.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Farrell and Kidman are outstanding, even as Lanthimos' ritualistic plotting and direction keep them hemmed into their characters' rigid conceptions.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Rupp’s slick multimedia work speaks to both technology and societal perceptions of aging women.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Paranoia’s impulsiveness, fixation, and self consciousness are mirrored in romance as a desire to be perceived in a particular way by a specific audience, a curiosity to uncover something deeper and more vital, and the desire to disappear into a world safe from outside perceptions.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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This lunation could trigger feelings of exhaustion or bring messages through vivid dreams and sudden realizations.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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Things may shift quickly, especially as this eclipse squares Uranus, bringing sudden realizations or changes.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Assimilations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assimilations. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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