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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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Both lures are intended to attract bears while not providing them with actual food that can habituate them to humans.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026

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Towards the end of 2025/2026, Gavi had firmly reclaimed his place in the starting line up, though this was also conditioned by a number of injuries.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Some found fault with the use of American accents instead of British ones, something Hollywood has long conditioned audiences to hear in sword-and-sandal epics.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026

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The hope is that the Bosnia and Herzegovina international will already be accustomed to Jaissle’s demands and can therefore quickly acclimatise to the German’s methods, even if Dedic is yet to play in the Premier League.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
By now, everyone is accustomed to the idea that technology has disconnected us from the world and one another.

— Ian Bogost, Time, 18 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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