acculturated

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Although she was buoyed to leave a union filled with anger and loneliness, she now entered single parenthood, and discovered that no arrangement of life contains the perfection she’d long been acculturated to expect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

The Christians of the Middle East had also been acculturated by centuries of living under Muslim rule, which meant the Christianity of the east looked very different from that practiced in Europe.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

But most Chinese Americans ultimately became fully acculturated, she said, although she saw limits to that process.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023

We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2021

However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond