inculcate

To tell one’s beads regularly requires a measure of the discipline it is meant to inculcate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

"I think you need to try and inculcate people into an understanding of the structures of governance, how you can engage in those structures."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

As Sagan wrote in his 1985 novel Contact, an awareness of extraterrestrial life would serve to inculcate the “power of the planetary perspective.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2023

It can be more difficult for employers to inculcate values and for workers to learn from one another.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Rut wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

This year brought a late, travel-related cancellation from the gifted pianist Utsav Lal, who inculcates the Indian classical tradition into his accompaniment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024

Despite being physically gone, Numa continues to narrate the course of the film, a deliberate storytelling choice by Bayona that inculcates the theme of consumption as a type of communion.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

“One of the things about recovery that I think people sometimes overlook is the fact that it inculcates certain values. Be honest. Be accountable. Help other people. Apologize when you’re wrong.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020

But, in the first place, wherever it is situated, the society, like the Catholic Church, inculcates loyalty to whatever form of government is duly established.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

At a young age, we are inculcated by our elders — those close to us as well as friends who became aunties, uncles and cousins by polite acclamation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

For public defenders dedicated to the work, or coming into the field with the hypercompetitive spirit inculcated by some law schools, such setbacks can be devastating.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2023

Not just because it deals with homegrown American Nazism as inculcated at a camp run by the German American Bund in Yaphank, N.Y., from 1936 to 1941.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

If it played a role in disenchanting the world, it did so precisely because it was effectively inculcated among the educated, clerical and lay, male and female.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Authorities also sent Tibetan children to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, educating them predominantly in Mandarin and inculcating Chinese culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“When you play the drum, it becomes an extension of your heartbeat, inculcating self-esteem by resuscitating your ancient DNA,” Ngwa said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023

It’s an irresistible ditty that starts by contrasting a text-to-speech voice inculcating on Isaac Newton with Pearce and musician Sharron Kraus singing about the sun’s mass.

From Scientific American ● May 27, 2022

This means inculcating a different vision of human society.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2021

An excellent story for boys, inculcating the valuable truth that whether a boy be rich or poor he should learn to work.

From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton