assimilation
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See what remains today: In Valentine, Ariz., the Truxton Canyon Training School, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for assimilation beginning in 1903, still stands near the highway, marked by a small, impermanent memorial.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Michael Carrick had a neat way of describing Benjamin Sesko's assimilation into life at Manchester United.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
In this long history of forced English-language assimilation, Puerto Rico remains an outlier.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“You know, Comrade Singh, there is one thing I learned during my defection: Everybody loves a happy assimilation story.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Vocabulary lists containing assimilation
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