enculturate

verb

Definition of enculturatenext
as in to acculturate

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  1. acculturate
  2. habituate
  3. condition
  4. accustom
  5. naturalize
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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of habituate
Verb
  • But for one more summer, there’s Wednesday night hockey in the suburbs, the tickets are cheap, the autographs are free, and the arena is air conditioned in the midst of a brutal heat wave.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 17 July 2026
  • Trainer Cherie DeVaux, the first female to condition a Derby winner, has mapped out a plan for his next start in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on August 29.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of condition
Verb
  • Muse Spark is chasing what Anthropic and OpenAI are already doing for developers accustomed to agentic coding tools, and Muse Spark doesn’t show major improvements in coding over its competitors’ models, according to benchmarks.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 10 July 2026
  • For a young generation accustomed to surface-level scrolling through social media, these ancient scrolls demand deep-dive immersion.
    — Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2026
Definition of accustom
Verb
  • The Associated Press profiled the woman in 2024 as part of a story about how many international adoptees were left without citizenship because their American adoptive parents failed to naturalize them.
    — Claire Galofaro, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 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
Definition of naturalize
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