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assimilation

[uh-sim-uh-lay-shuhn] / əˌsɪm əˈleɪ ʃən /




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They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The episode, Ms. Horn observes sardonically, is enough “to make one question the premise” of seeking acceptance through assimilation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

But assimilation is both survival and validation for Joan, who returns to school as “Jo Hunt,” now played by Grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Some of us may have lost our “mother tongue,” as my nanni used to call it, but the custom of tameez—respect—for elders stays strong, despite decades of assimilation.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The broader truth of the recent waves of immigration, the truth of a million small assimilations and adjustments, was easily lost in the tabloid terrors.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2016

These little quirks of idiom not only give the poem force and freshness, they seem to suggest the assimilations that the speakers are already sharing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2010

"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there was a supplement of additional assimilations, and how to get them in.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort




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