enculturated

past tense of enculturate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enculturated
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
  • Earle-Sears’s blowout even stunned veteran operatives accustomed to Virginia’s blue tilt.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
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
  • The alternative story of Helen’s Egyptian detour invites a more critical examination of the relationship between war and story by highlighting the degree to which humans have been conditioned by a narrative that presents war as the ultimate stage for personal and national glory.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Enculturated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturated. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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