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
  • Both lures are intended to attract bears while not providing them with actual food that can habituate them to humans.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
Definition of habituate
Verb
  • The pledge would cost more than $1 trillion and is conditioned on an election result rather than an economic one.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This current group, so conditioned to disappointment, appeared destined to join them.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of condition
Verb
  • As an Australian, six-time Olympian Mary Hanna is accustomed to traveling long distances with horses.
    — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently, since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.
    — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of accustom
Verb
  • For example, Social Security's citizenship data often isn't updated when people naturalize, and the SAVE data system, operated by USCIS, frequently doesn't include records for people who became citizens as minors when their parents naturalized.
    — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The plants are also known for their ability to multiply and naturalize.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of naturalize
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