enculturate

verb

Definition of enculturatenext
as in to acculturate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enculturate
  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
  • As regulators charged with protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly markets, the SEC has a duty to pause or condition the dicey OpenAI IPO pending full disclosure of governance risk scenarios.
    — Orson Aguilar, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • Founders have been conditioned by the volume of grant fraud to assume legitimate capital is a scam.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of condition
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  • Such an alliance requires new ways of thinking, says Storin, to which some advertisers may not be accustomed.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 July 2026
  • American Express surrounds both with card-member benefits, payment data and customers accustomed to access.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 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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