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
  • In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Patrick Stewart, of all people, is an all-time villain as the skinheads' calculating leader, issuing merciless orders in the same reasonable cadence we've been conditioned to trust implicitly.
    Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, though it’s conditioned on the completion of certain unspecified terms within 45 days.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Venezuelans got accustomed to dismissing it all as noise, just a pretext the dictatorship employed to stamp out civil rights.
    Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Drivers accustomed to taking the freeway to zip north and south through the Treasure Valley will have to follow detours to Star and Linder roads.
    Rose Evans November 4, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 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 8 Nov. 2025.

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