enculturate

Definition of enculturatenext

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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
  • The bison calf later had to be euthanized because it was habituated to humans.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This step is important to remove all gunk and stuck-on food before moving on to conditioning and shining the surface, according to Stein.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Vinegar can be drying, so remember to condition leather to keep it supple.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • And governments abroad accustomed to Trump’s lack of predictability now face a president whose entire philosophy toward foreign interventionism appears to have turned on a dime.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That should be pretty uncomfortable for players accustomed to playing in sunny Los Angeles.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The discipline has built a vast array of empirical theses deep inside this single ideology—liberalism—and, in doing so, has naturalized it.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Americans can naturalize in other countries without risking loss of their American citizenship.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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