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indoctrinate

[in-dok-truh-neyt] / ɪnˈdɒk trəˌneɪt /


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"Smartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people", says Mr Williams.

From BBC May 30, 2025

In the film, Gosling’s Ken — Barbie’s anxiety-ridden, try-hard, beta-status boyfriend — is revitalized by the patriarchy of the real world and returns to indoctrinate everyone in Barbieland.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2023

Now he’s emerged as a particularly vocal Muslim advocate against what he calls an attempt to indoctrinate children.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2023

“The purpose is not to indoctrinate them or guide them in some kind of political philosophy. … The story is so much more complex than simply White people versus Black people,” Higginbotham said.

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2022

"But I warn you; if this is some scheme to indoctrinate me with the Uller Company's side of the case and blind me to unjust exploitation of the natives here, I don't propagandize very easily."

From Uller Uprising by John D. Clark

"That's how manipulative it is - it indoctrinates you."

From BBC Apr. 9, 2025

I'm thinking about the jurisprudence that, even more directly if more subtly, has expanded First Amendment protections of the commercial speech that indoctrinates us, 24/7, to embrace narrow, self-interested strategies of "self-improvement" and protection.

From Salon May 29, 2022

There is so much literature and culture that indoctrinates all humans, and the disempowered, to repress their justified rage and righteous anger.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2018

No one indoctrinates when he is under observation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your fair daughter was but as ever preparing beforehand with me the tasks with which she so kindly indoctrinates her little sisters.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Again the U.S. hit a brick wall called Europe and a team of players for whom the World Cup assignment is an indoctrinated dream from Day One.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

"If I was born in another household where my parents were poor, couldn't afford my education, I could have also become easily radicalised and indoctrinated by the Taliban," he says.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

Once a viewer is indoctrinated, however, they may find it difficult to refrain from puzzling over its message.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

Maybe this is just because I was indoctrinated through three years of law school, and because my career hangs on it, but I have to think that the law matters.

From Slate Dec. 2, 2024

Was it simply expected that he would become indoctrinated into the blinding passion of the Mojo mystique just like everyone else?

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Like avian Fagins, the birds were indoctrinating others to a life of crime.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Ultimately, “everyone is capable of indoctrinating themselves at any time.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2024

As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.

From Salon Dec. 18, 2023

So whether the team rips off the proverbial Band-Aid by immediately indoctrinating Beniers in his envisioned future role will say plenty about this season’s goals.

From Seattle Times Sep. 21, 2022

I dinna hauld wi' thae French indoctrinating pedants, that took to stick free opinions into a man as ye'd stick pins into a pincushion, to fa' out again the first shake.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes




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