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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

Harrison, on the other hand, is “trying to indoctrinate my daughter into Tolkien’s world” despite his wife’s distaste.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2022

Do they think we want to indoctrinate kids?

From Slate Oct. 28, 2022

Now 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has a full week to indoctrinate McCaffrey into an offense that includes receiver/running back Deebo Samuel and tight end George Kittle.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2022

Lucretius, therefore, had outgrown mythology, was hostile to religion, and burned with unsurpassable enthusiasm to indoctrinate his Roman readers with the weighty conclusions of systematised materialism.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds

"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

The boys of the ship are taking lessons, in knotting, and splicing, and listening to the “yarn” of some old salt, as he indoctrinates them in these mysteries.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes

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

Lisa knew nothing of the game before she met Paul, but was soon indoctrinated.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2025

He relaxed strict dress codes for agents, recruited female agents and pointedly hired people from outside the agency – who were not indoctrinated in the Hoover culture – for administrative posts.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2025

“We’re all indoctrinated into thinking that there’s nothing more important than autonomy, but it’s a very mixed blessing,” says Schwartz.

From Slate Nov. 2, 2024

He had become as indoctrinated into the cult of football in Odessa as anyone.

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

“It’s in charge of indoctrinating the kids,” said Hanan.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

That includes indoctrinating new players into the Chiefs’ system.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 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

In the suits, Wershe accused officers from the FBI and Detroit Police Department of indoctrinating him into a “criminal society” as a child.

From Seattle Times Sep. 20, 2023

If its author should succeed in indoctrinating the race with his views, he will produce an intellectual revolution.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd




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