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assimilation

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




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A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Her family’s distress increased in the late 1890s as the U.S. government intensified its push for the culmination of its assimilation campaign: allotment.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

The life of nations depends upon constant change, the great producer of mixtures and assimilations.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas




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