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enculturate

verb

Definition of enculturate

as in to acculturate

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Anne’s mother, Edith, continued to speak German, and, by all accounts, struggled to acculturate to her new environment.

— Time, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
The art world is acculturated to the notion that biennials should highlight new narratives but seems to presume that those artists must also be living and relatively young.

— Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024

Definition of acculturate

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First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
The reason for these laws, which exist everywhere grizzlies are found, is that feeding bears can habituate them to humans.

— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2026

Definition of habituate

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For parents accustomed to constant caution, experiences like these once seemed impossible.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Song Kang stars as Kang Bi-o, a prodigy accustomed to being top of his class, whose position is threatened by transfer student Choi Jeong-yo (Lee Jun-young), a raw talent from a disadvantaged background.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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The court clarified that children born in countries that automatically grant citizenship at birth — including the United States — retain their Italian citizenship even if their parents naturalize there.

— Giada Zampano, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
After 1804, however, hundreds of white French people remained in Haiti and were naturalized as Haitian citizens, securing equal rights under Dessalines’ 1805 Haitian constitution.

— Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 June 2026

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