assimilate
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She has gone by “Mary,” instead of Maria at times because it helped her assimilate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
It could be a long season ahead but we cannot expect 10 new players to assimilate immediately.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"I don't know if my body just doesn't assimilate the supplements as well, but minoxidil is definitely more effective long-term," she said.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
Like any other hive mind, the Others have a biological imperative to assimilate the immune, whether the immune wants to be integrated or not.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
What does exist is the paragraph break: a visual bookmark that allows the reader to pause, take a breather, assimilate what he has read, and then find his place again on the page.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Jacques Bouvier added: 'Because rubisco assimilates the sugars which fuel life on Earth, improving this enzyme is one of the most promising avenues to help combat food insecurity.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
ChatGPT, Microsoft-controlled AI that grows smarter at mimicking human behavior as it assimilates more knowledge in a massive database, presents the illusion of talking with a friend who wants to do your work for you.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
Comment: New season, same story: A few key returnees, a handful of talented transfers, and a system that assimilates newcomers as well as any in the land.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
It features the singer in a wedding dress and bedazzled eyebrows, and its capacious aesthetic assimilates references to “Mean Girls” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” John Waters and Quentin Tarantino.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Together the forewords underscore a larger point: Golding is not easily assimilated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The current study shows that those who have assimilated more positive age beliefs often show improvement, Levy said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
And what inspired “Marcriá,” once you assimilated those feelings?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
Without being told, I soon assimilated the elaborate rules that governed the relations between men and women.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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In those 1990s clubs and car shows, you could see and feel that Asian Americans weren’t assimilating culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
The U.S. has a strong record of assimilating newcomers, from Asians in San Francisco to Irish in New York to Cubans in Miami, and birthright citizenship has been part of that story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Like a lot of veterans, he had trouble assimilating into the civilian world.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
So, it's not just about filter bubbles on social media but also about an innate way of assimilating information.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
When people, plants, and animals die, they stop assimilating C14.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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