acculturate
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“We are trying to acculturate into American society, and WeChat provides this bridge for us to empower one another,” Ms. Lu said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020
The duty of new migrants is to integrate, acculturate and adhere to Australian values of democracy, tolerance and fairness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2018
The repercussions of such a holding would go beyond access to free public education—itself a right of inestimable importance in helping to acculturate and open opportunities for so many undocumented children.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
Within the walls of our middle school, these students found safety and an environment where they could process their trials, learn English and begin to acculturate to life in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
So Chahal wasn’t acculturated into the party the way many others have been.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Some Japanese women are also acculturated to cover their mouths when eating or laughing.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
Best known were the Ghassanids and the Lakhmids, who were brought into the service of the Byzantines and Persians, respectively, by the sixth century CE and became increasingly acculturated to them.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Of course, we are acculturated to view such nakedly unsentimental visions of humanity as coldly “rational,” a tendency Kirsch indulges despite evidence that transhumanism is scientifically dubious.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
As a child grows, he or she becomes acculturated to all of the sounds in their environment.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
It was difficult acculturating to life in the United States after immigrating from the Philippines when she was 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
The following year, Lollapalooza filled fields nationwide not just with amazing bands, but stalls selling hemp products and Greenpeace donation booths, acculturating a generation to the idea of voting their ethics with their wallets.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2013
“Utica is a model for a small community in terms of integrating and acculturating emerging populations.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
