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.
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To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
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The wildlife team tends to the cubs while wearing bear suits to avoid habituating the cubs to humans.
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In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.
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Evolutionary pressures have conditioned us to prefer physically healthy mates who are more likely to produce healthy offspring and to be able to help raise them.
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We have been conditioned for this without noticing.
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El Mercadito, a new weekly outdoor market near San Jose’s SAP Center, is attracting both visitors and vendors accustomed to selling their products at the venerable Berryessa Flea Market, whose future is uncertain.
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Even for a party accustomed to searing debates between progressives and moderates, the schism over Israel has been blistering.
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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.
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In 1790, Congress passed a federal law so that only free white immigrants could naturalize as citizens.
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