indoctrinate
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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
Wearing them was never meant to indoctrinate anyone into the communities being honored or get them to repudiate their own beliefs.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 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
You can not imagine with what charming benignity the young monk instructed those little ones; he measured his words to their intelligence, in order to indoctrinate them with the simple and pure evangelical morality.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne
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