assimilation
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About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Even many immigration hawks traditionally argued that newcomers could become fully American through assimilation into constitutional values and institutions.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Michael Carrick had a neat way of describing Benjamin Sesko's assimilation into life at Manchester United.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
“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
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
Together with the alteration of this most striking feature of Indian manners, other assimilations to European sentiments have already taken place.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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