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assimilation

[uh-sim-uh-lay-shuhn] / əˌsɪm əˈleɪ ʃən /




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They were first brutally forced to adopt Christianity and abandon their shamanism, before assimilation efforts intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries as the far north's economic importance grew.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

He is carrying into sleep the knowledge and the purpose of waking hours;—and he is carrying back into waking hours again the benefit of those profound assimilations which are the privilege of sleep.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers


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