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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

However, Unison said the extra funding was for "assimilation and arrears", and would not help the staff facing wage cuts.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Months earlier I’d moved from an east-of-Eastside suburb to Los Feliz, where the quickest path to assimilation appeared to be the one I could cut across my forehead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

What is the image saying about class and assimilation?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He is carrying into sleep the knowledge and the purpose of waking hours;—and he is carrying back into waking hours again the benefit of those profound assimilations which are the privilege of sleep.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers




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