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indoctrinate

[in-dok-truh-nayt] / 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

“The purpose is not to indoctrinate them or guide them in some kind of political philosophy. … The story is so much more complex than simply White people versus Black people,” Higginbotham said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

Do they think we want to indoctrinate kids?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022

To serve apprenticeship is to indoctrinate one's self with pernicious orthodoxies.

From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

"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

Once a viewer is indoctrinated, however, they may find it difficult to refrain from puzzling over its message.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

The central character had been "indoctrinated by voices" like Andrew Tate's and "voices a lot more dangerous than Andrew Tate's", one of its writers, Jack Thorne told Radio 4's Front Row.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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

At a makeshift training school in New York, agents were indoctrinated in the new regulations and methods.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

He had never succeeded, however, in thoroughly indoctrinating his daughter.

From The Bread-winners A Social Study by John Hay




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