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inculcated

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verb

past tense of inculcate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inculcated
Verb
Within these confines the main characters register as aliens; Wendy and Jack aren’t just flustered but people who seem to have never been inculcated with a rudimentary sense of social propriety. — Vadim Rizov, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026 We were inculcated with the importance of charity, love toward all, good works and humility, and urged to carry those virtues into adulthood. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 We were constantly informed that our purpose was to become genteel and inculcated in Christian virtue. — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 Patriotism is a value that an IP-dependent tech company fighting Chinese rivals might well be happy to see inculcated in its employees. — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026 That’s true for Tamma in a different way – it’s inculcated in Tamma that no one will help her but that’s not true. — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026 Notably, said Kriner, individuals who are inculcated with a sense of nihilism do not commit crimes to achieve an ideological goal. — Odette Yousef, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inculcated
Adjective
  • Native culture is an imbedded fact of Minnesota’s history and now the Indian – a brave, a scout, God forbid somebody’s friend — is gone from the flag.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
  • The device receives a video feed captured by external smart glasses with an embedded camera.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is a book suffused with beauty, but climate emergency is its undercurrent.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • There were taro patches and gardens planted with banana, sweet potato, sugar cane, noni, and more.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Simply put, a rain garden is a depressed bed planted with native perennials and shrubs selected for their high-water tolerance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Thirty years ago, McDonald instilled terror into his enemies.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Our mum’s a voracious reader and really instilled reading.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Verb
  • While Creed-Miles and Edgar-Jones’s respective Los Angeles premiere looks embraced runway pieces from separate decades, what unified their sister style choices was the romantic energy imbued into each design.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Built to echo the Andean cross, the property is also deeply imbued in the culture and mystique of the area – to that end, Shamans are on call for private tours.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As a child of parents who bred him to be the next Green Lantern, John knows full well the conflict between conscience and instinct, a ceaseless war that threatens to explode to the surface.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • However, Andersen believed the mantra bred a culture of denial.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • How can something so ingrained in Lexington society and lexicon remain so enigmatic?
    — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2026
  • International film sales agents are pretty ingrained in the timelines of the market calendar.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In Richard’s hands, Creole culture is rooted and migrant, soil and air.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Morris developed a reputation for a high-tempo offensive philosophy rooted heavily in the Air Raid offense made famous by Mike Leach.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

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“Inculcated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inculcated. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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