instill

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This gift could instill in her a financial responsibility and maturity that encourages good habits.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

This entails programs to promote standard Chinese as the national lingua franca, instill pride in Chinese cultural heritage and exert stronger central control over regions with large ethnic-minority populations such as Tibet and Xinjiang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Blank, however, says that there’s not necessarily “a huge desire among Democratic voters to instill more Christianity into their politics.”

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026

There was, of course, the ever-popular Nickelodeon show “Dora the Explorer” and before that, the PBS show “Amigos,” that looked to instill the basics of Spanish into kids across America.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The only way my father could think of to instill in me a sense of my heritage was to take me to dubbed Italian versions of the ancient Greek myths.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides