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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

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

It is needful to get back to first principles and to indoctrinate the public anew with correct notions as to the object of an office and the duties of a public officer.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

"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

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

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

I’ve often joked I was the perfect age to be indoctrinated.

From BBC Oct. 17, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

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

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

With a view to indoctrinating the Irish people with the idea of nationality he joined John Blake Dillon in editing the Dublin Morning Register.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various




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