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

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

Located in Bucharest, both of these institutions are designed to train and indoctrinate key bureaucratic personnel.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier

"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

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

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

Was it simply expected that he would become indoctrinated into the blinding passion of the Mojo mystique just like everyone else?

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

So whether the team rips off the proverbial Band-Aid by immediately indoctrinating Beniers in his envisioned future role will say plenty about this season’s goals.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

The training or normal establishment is instituted for the express purpose of indoctrinating the masters in the views prescribed by the Board.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865 by Society of Clergymen