assimilative

Example Sentences

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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2025

“It’s not a straight-up assimilative attempt,” she says.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2016

The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015

He reads through the whole tract of his digestive and assimilative nature.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley