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assimilation

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




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They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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

It is also a profile of Saurabh Netravalkar, who can serve as the face of the U.S. game, but also of immigration, assimilation and the virtues of rooting for the home team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson professed his commitment to the goal of “the full assimilation of more than twenty million Negroes into American life,” and ensured the passage of comprehensive civil rights legislation.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.

From Time Magazine Archive

To its lip he holds the purest ichors of existence; with ennobling draughts of awe, pity, sympathy, and joy, he quickens its blood and strengthens its vital assimilations.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various


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