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enculturate

verb

Definition of enculturate

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.

— 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

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First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
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

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Now sensing an opening, Lowe has sought to form an alliance with Farage, conditioned on Farage accepting some of Restore’s more extreme policies.

— Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Boron nitride gives the formula its silky slip and creates a blurring effect, while avocado oil adds conditioning moisture so a matte doesn’t look like skin is parched.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026

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But developers accustomed to CUDA may need to rewrite and optimize substantial portions of their existing code before moving their training workloads to Ascend.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
This offers reassurance to viewers accustomed to his voice during baseball's biggest moments.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of accustom

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The court clarified that children born in countries that automatically grant citizenship at birth — including the United States — retain their Italian citizenship even if their parents naturalize there.

— Giada Zampano, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 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

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