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
  • These products habituate parents and babies to see surveillance as equivalent to care.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 15 May 2025
  • By then, bureaucratic America—corporate and government alike—was well habituated to buying its computers from IBM.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2017
Verb
  • Just know the film is split into three distinct movements, each shifting in tone and perspective, yet all rooted in the same thematic core: the unchecked violence of patriarchy, and the quiet ways women have been conditioned to endure and survive it.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • The Allure-editor favorite is formulated with conditioning ingredients like niacin (vitamin B3) and hyaluronic acid.
    Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • Still, many passengers who are accustomed to checking in at the airport ignore these alerts.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025
  • Judge hit three first-pitch solo homers in the first two games of the Dodgers series, the type of performance of which the Yanks have become accustomed, two of them behind Fried.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 June 2025
Verb
  • Perfect for woodland gardens, under trees and shrubs, the plants naturalize easily through rhizomes and can easily be divided to share or replant.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
  • Yes, but once you are naturalized, you are considered fully Argentine in the eyes of the law, and citizenship cannot be renounced.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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