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- verb Present participle of
acculturate .
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Examples
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Therefore, the idea of acculturating immigrants is an absurdity, because there is no culture for them to be acculturated into.
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Therefore, the idea of acculturating immigrants is an absurdity, because there is no culture for them to be acculturated into.
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Therefore, the idea of acculturating immigrants is an absurdity, because there is no culture for them to be acculturated into.
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In fact, despite all the hand-wringing over Hispanic hordes and porous borders, Latinos are acculturating as fast as any other immigrant group in U.S. history.
Guy Garcia: Are Hispanics the New American Reality? Claro Que Si! But Will They Get Their Own Museum? Quien Sabe. Guy Garcia 2011
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Native American languages were seen as a barrier to acculturating the Native Americans, so the languages had to be destroyed.
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Drawing pictures about Israeli evil was clearly an important step in acculturating young children to the perpetual war, but Mohammed Dawi much preferred the spontaneity of getting outdoors or visiting Hezbollah families in their home where he could lead unscripted conversations about war and Islamic justice.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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Native American languages were seen as a barrier to acculturating the Native Americans, so the languages had to be destroyed.
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But in a cosmopolitan city, they faced an apparently permanent problem of acculturating an unprecedented number of Jewish strangers.
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Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office.
Letter To WaPo Ombud Howell About George Will's Smearing Of Webb 2009
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The immense popularity of these films and fictions suggests that they spoke to Jews, in addition to many other groups of acculturating Americans.
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