enculturate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enculturate
Verb
  • To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 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
Verb
  • Campers were warned against leaving footwear outside their tents to avoid habituating the fox to humans.
    Ruffin Prevost, AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
  • Just like black bears, coyotes can be habituated and lose their natural fear of people through intentional or unintentional feeding.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Moreover, the dissociation process is conditioned on Debtor's commencement of a bankruptcy case, the precise situation that § 541(c) is intended to address.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That process typically involves progressing from conditioning work to non-contact drills before being cleared for full contact.
    Grant Afseth, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By now, Moore, of Wisconsin, is accustomed to working while Miller sleeps either on her lap, laying over her shoulder, or cuddled up with a blanket.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But Piker, like many other streamers, is accustomed to speaking glibly about serious matters.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Snowdrops readily naturalize and are best planted in drifts along woodland edges or under large trees.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Arendt argued that such a view naturalizes anti-Semitism, counterintuitively suggesting its legitimacy.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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