1
as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
dedicated teachers inculcating young minds with a love of learning
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as in to plant
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a malcontent who inculcated in his offspring an abiding distrust of all civil authority
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Recent Examples of inculcate
Another important way is to inculcate mindfulness by observing anger as a passing emotion rather than being all consumed by it.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Imbued with empathy, Canseco is poised to extend the ambassador mentality inculcated at the fair in her first-in-her-family journey to college.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
Nothing left to do but build and inculcate my fantastical
atoms, unable to catch a break.
—Hazlitt, 15 May 2025
Abe was part of a conservative faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and known for his association with Nippon Kaigi, an influential conservative organization that among other goals advocated teaching Japanese history to inculcate national pride.
—Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Imbued with empathy, Canseco is poised to extend the ambassador mentality inculcated at the fair in her first-in-her-family journey to college.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
Nothing left to do but build and inculcate my fantastical
atoms, unable to catch a break.
—Hazlitt, 15 May 2025
Abe was part of a conservative faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and known for his association with Nippon Kaigi, an influential conservative organization that among other goals advocated teaching Japanese history to inculcate national pride.
—Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inculcate
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Two frame types—the Breitling Chrono 0002 and Breitling Lémain 0001—are available directly from Cutler & Gross in different colors and editions, and each is suffused with nods to the Swiss watchmaker’s esteemed dive watch collection.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
7 Oct. 2025
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Jones also seemed planted in the pocket and was sacked three times in the fourth quarter alone.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
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Large, late-flowering bulbs are planted at the bottom.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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Taylor’s cerebral bent is nothing new, but here, it’s imbued with a fresh, tentative sweetness, and anchored by a genuinely swoony summer romance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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That’s because, as it’s repeated, the masses will start treating the meme as if it’s imbued with meaning.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Originally developed in Germany in the late 19th century, the boxer was bred for hunting, guarding, and later for military and police work, which can make some sense of why the boxer in the video clip was so keen to observe the camera.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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They weren’t bred for their brains, either.—
Bruce Headlam,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Across almost 20 novels, the British author spun fantastical tales with unsentimental wit, infusing his work with darkly morbid humor, blithe child endangerment, rotten and antagonistic adults, and a willingness to occasionally laugh at the misfortune of others.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
17 Oct. 2025
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But my parents did a really good job of instilling in me that I shouldn’t be entitled to anything.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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While less populated than Pittsburgh, East Palestine instilled similar values.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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At the Summer 2026 runway show, Stella McCartney presented a range of upcycled denim looks—think reconstructed waistbands in patchwork designs on pants and dresses—as well as slouchy jeans silhouettes, all made of denim imbedded with Pure.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Oct. 2025
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The company is already deploying inside classified Department of Defense environments and embedding across platforms like NetSuite and Salesforce.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Just a simple path to follow around the ancient trees, all stable and strongly rooted.—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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And while the absence of a hometown rooting interest obviously won’t translate into a total baseball blackout hereabouts, only someone who’s been clobbered over the head by Wonderboy might expect to see the World Series ratings reach the heights of last year.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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