assimilation
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A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
However, Unison said the extra funding was for "assimilation and arrears", and would not help the staff facing wage cuts.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
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
Señora," he said,—his Spanish matched his other assimilations of travel— "Señora.
From Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
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