enculturate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enculturate
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
  • 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
Verb
  • And Fisher believes the situation warrants an even stronger response, under which his team would be authorized to kill wolves that are clearly habituated to hunting and eating only domestic animals.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • These sediments, the researchers observed, had low bacterial diversity compared to other surrounding sediments, and the bacteria came from families habituated to alkaline environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents or alkaline hot springs.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The alternative story of Helen’s Egyptian detour invites a more critical examination of the relationship between war and story by highlighting the degree to which humans have been conditioned by a narrative that presents war as the ultimate stage for personal and national glory.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In an unusual twist, the TV host conditioned a loan to Merit Street on the company winning its lawsuit against the network.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Real Housewives‘ children weren’t the only cast members accustomed to the limelight, as Ava Dash, daughter to Damon Dash, also took part in the series.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By the late nineteen-eighties, Soviet women were accustomed to coming home after a draining work day to run unmechanized households and hunt for vanishingly rare food and clothing for their children, who were primarily their responsibility.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is what democracy means to my mother: That each and every human birthed or naturalized in America should have the opportunity to have an opportunity.
    Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These bulbs form clumps that quickly naturalize in woodland gardens or lawns.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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