indoctrinates

present tense third-person singular of indoctrinate

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Recent Examples of indoctrinates Poison indoctrinates our youth in the classroom and is reinforced by the divisive rhetoric constantly spewed forth in so much of the media. Brooke L. Rollins, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • Generally, appellate courts do not overrule decisions based on facts as determined by a lower court, said John Yoo, a conservative legal scholar who teaches at UC Berkeley Law.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Kitagawa teaches in Japan at Kyoto University, Robinson is a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Yaghi teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
    Connor Greene, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.
    Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The nonprofit museum maintains the property and educates the public on Fort Lauderdale’s rich — and relatively young — history.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Indoctrinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indoctrinates. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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