assimilation
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About 36 percent of their annual carbon assimilation occurred after growth had already stopped in late summer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
For her, assimilation took the form of middle-class attainment: a nice home, Coach purses and a leased C-Class Mercedes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Michael Carrick had a neat way of describing Benjamin Sesko's assimilation into life at Manchester United.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
In this long history of forced English-language assimilation, Puerto Rico remains an outlier.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
Is this my assimilation, so many years in the making?
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
It is possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Together with the alteration of this most striking feature of Indian manners, other assimilations to European sentiments have already taken place.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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