indoctrinate

"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

Packer added that questions posed revealed a lack of understanding about the topics at hand, such as whether the course would indoctrinate students into “Black Panther thinking.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

Do they think we want to indoctrinate kids?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022

Better to save one sinner from an obvious vice that is destroying him, than to indoctrinate ten thousand saints.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville

"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

Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect.

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

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

The parents say that their kids are being indoctrinated, even though they’re just being exposed to narratives about the world around them.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025

But on this expedition he had been cast in the role of invincible guide, there to look after me and the other clients; we had been specifically indoctrinated not to question our guides’ judgment.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The usual assumption is that professors are indoctrinating students, but that’s too simple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

Chaplin’s character ultimately meets a terrible fate for leading on the men and indoctrinating their children with ideas that challenge the family order.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

As lecturer in Exeter College he found an opportunity of indoctrinating his countrymen in the new Greek learning.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various