as in to acculturate
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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
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Companies like Tencent have set a precedent by habituating vast segments of the population to daily AI interactions.—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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This habituated the regime to the give-and-take politics of winning support.—
Sean Yom,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2016
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Platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube have systematically hacked our brains for quick hits of dopamine, conditioning young people for instant gratification and eroding their patience for challenging cognitive tasks.—
Catherine Goetze,
Time,
17 Apr. 2025
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We were being asked to see a woman as capable of occupying the most powerful position in the world, in a media landscape conditioned to view us as high-definition train wrecks.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Individual European nations are also accustomed to keeping their national hands on them.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
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Church volunteers, who were accustomed to helping furnish and decorate apartments for new arrivals, now had to help prevent evictions.—
Amy Yurkanin,
ProPublica,
15 Apr. 2025
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If Trump were to attempt to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized lawfully, legal experts say it would almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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The amendment ensures that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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