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

Do they think we want to indoctrinate kids?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022

But maybe they think we’re trying to indoctrinate kids from the cradle on.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

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

From Ullr Uprising by H. Beam Piper

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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