assimilation
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The episode, Ms. Horn observes sardonically, is enough “to make one question the premise” of seeking acceptance through assimilation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Months earlier I’d moved from an east-of-Eastside suburb to Los Feliz, where the quickest path to assimilation appeared to be the one I could cut across my forehead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even many immigration hawks traditionally argued that newcomers could become fully American through assimilation into constitutional values and institutions.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
So they do not realize that while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilated into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The broader truth of the recent waves of immigration, the truth of a million small assimilations and adjustments, was easily lost in the tabloid terrors.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2016
These little quirks of idiom not only give the poem force and freshness, they seem to suggest the assimilations that the speakers are already sharing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2010
"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had a magical virtue, which his tentative science could only explain by chance analogies and assimilations.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Edward Carpenter
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