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inculcate

verb as in implant, infuse information

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To inculcate “patriotism” and martial pride, he invited retired soldiers to campus and proposed putting a battle tank on display.

It’s the freedom to use your tax dollars to fund schools that inculcate children in contempt for those who are different.

From Salon

Their goal is to inculcate schoolchildren or their communities with a wholly imaginary picture of a bygone America in which Black or LGBTQ+ people didn’t exist in mainstream society, so their concerns could be safely ignored.

As Sagan wrote in his 1985 novel Contact, an awareness of extraterrestrial life would serve to inculcate the “power of the planetary perspective.”

From Slate

"It was published deliberately and maliciously in order to injure and denigrate her reputation, and inculcate a culture of derision of women in politics," he added.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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