assimilation
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For her, assimilation took the form of middle-class attainment: a nice home, Coach purses and a leased C-Class Mercedes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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
But a time jump, moving from a shtetl during World War I to 1930s Warsaw, pushes the film into more unexpected territory, as it encompasses issues of immigration, adoption and assimilation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
So they do not realize that while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilated into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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