assimilative
Example Sentences
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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025
“It’s not a straight-up assimilative attempt,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016
The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
In Perugino the brilliant but most assimilative young student found just the master he needed.
From Perugino by Selwyn Brinton
