enculturate

Definition of enculturatenext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enculturate
Verb
  • Anne’s mother, Edith, continued to speak German, and, by all accounts, struggled to acculturate to her new environment.
    Time, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The wildlife team tends to the cubs while wearing bear suits to avoid habituating the cubs to humans.
    Isabel Yip, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Access is being restricted, conditioned and controlled.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Investors now seem conditioned from last year to ignore any warnings about the president's policies slowing the economy.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Cubans have long been accustomed to shopping with wads of cash stuffed into bags after compounding bouts of soaring inflation.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Bill Murray, for one, is accustomed to complex if not disappointing sporting dynamics.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Many wanted to partake in this life (preferably on the inside of the buildings), and some prominent influencers—such as the manosphere’s high priest of misogyny and homosociality, Andrew Tate—have moved here and seem ready to naturalize.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Ghazali first entered the U.S. in 2011 and was later naturalized into a U.S. citizen in 2016 during the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News.
    Alexandra Koch , Efrat Lachter , Michael Ruiz , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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