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as in suffused
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 planted
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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as in embedded
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Recent Examples of inculcated
Odette Yousef, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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
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The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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Harvest apples at Little River Orchard, a relatively new spot that’s run by a food-science expert who planted grafted trees in 2016 and started seeing the fruits of his labor in 2021.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The idea of Maggie’s untrustworthiness has already been planted in an early scene, mid-party, involving a bathroom cabinet and a hidden envelope conveniently filled with old news clippings concerning dark secrets in Alma’s past.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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His defeat of 82-year-old Harrison Ford crystallized the Academy’s wholesale rejection of celebrity currency in favor of embedded, touching work.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
15 Sep. 2025
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The device receives a video feed captured by external smart glasses with an embedded camera.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The tobacco is imbued with prayer and its smoke takes that prayer to Creator.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Continuity, and a drive to achieve what had slipped away in last year’s finals loss to the New York Liberty, bred a historic season — a Lynx franchise-record 34 wins and a team that led the league in offensive and defensive ratings.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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If so, look for varieties adapted to or bred for hotter, more humid weather.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His mother—central in shaping his early confidence—instilled in him a kind of resilience that would later fuel his global ambitions.—
Janee Bolden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Maye was efficient, didn’t turn the ball over, made plays with his arm and his legs, instilled confidence in his teammates and, most importantly, came away with a 33-27 win in Week 2.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
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Mums are shallow-rooted and require regular watering to maintain soil moisture in the root zone.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
30 Sep. 2025
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As with every Puesto restaurant, this location will feature custom architecture that is locally rooted.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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Found in small quantities in the solar wind, He-3 is implanted in the lunar regolith, the layer of loose, fragmented material that carpets the terrain of the moon.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Wilson had her lap-band implanted in 2012.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Inculcated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inculcated. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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