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Recent Examples of acculturation
This juxtaposition reflects the jarring reality of refugee life; grieving becomes secondary, dependent on one’s survival and acculturation.
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Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
Even if most commercial passengers are aware, on an intellectual level, that the skilled but underutilized pilots in the cockpit are mostly being paid to drink coffee, the idea of fully autonomous flight will require some acculturation.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
End of carousel After more than a century, is there anything new to say about the story of immigration and one family’s acculturation?
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
But bigger than both was the Yiddish theater: a keepsake of home, and yet also a means of acculturation for the 2.5 million Jews who arrived in the United States between 1881 and 1924.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
Even if most commercial passengers are aware, on an intellectual level, that the skilled but underutilized pilots in the cockpit are mostly being paid to drink coffee, the idea of fully autonomous flight will require some acculturation.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
End of carousel After more than a century, is there anything new to say about the story of immigration and one family’s acculturation?
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
But bigger than both was the Yiddish theater: a keepsake of home, and yet also a means of acculturation for the 2.5 million Jews who arrived in the United States between 1881 and 1924.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acculturation
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But one of my adjustments took me a by surprise, and that is the quandary of how to approach lunch.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Presidential Working Group is expected to release a preliminary report within the next three months, outlining potential regulatory adjustments.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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The increase in prescriptions, and the prescribers who work in a broad range of specialties, point to the need for further audits into whether claims are being paid in accordance with Medicare requirements, the IG said.—
Adriel Bettelheim,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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Experts from the Earthquake Research Center of Istanbul Technical University and civil engineering professors from Dokuz Eylül university concluded that if the hotel had been built in accordance with earthquake regulations the building would not have collapsed.—
Emily Wither,
The Dial,
13 Feb. 2025
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Many drug launches fail, often due to poor planning or speed of adaptation in launch years.—
Tom Hughes,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The creator of The Wild Robot has big hopes for the movie adaptation.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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The study also tracked appearance congruence, a measure of how much a person’s physical presentation matches their gender identity.—
Tyler Santora,
Scientific American,
25 Feb. 2025
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Is there coherence, congruence, and appropriate feedback loops between our purpose, strategy, and decision-making? Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.—
The Sorenson Impact Institute,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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The reason has little to do with muscle recovery or nutrient absorption: Rather, people who are too hungry make poor dietary choices.—
Albert Stumm,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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Original Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $15.25 (10% off) Buy Now on Amazon Solgar Chelated Zinc, 250 Tablets Chelated for maximum absorption, these zinc tablets from Solgar are designed to be gentle on your stomach while delivering powerful immune and skin support.—
KAYLEIGH DRAKE,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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Enterprise architects are in the business of both defining the technology standards for the business as well as governing the adoption of new and emerging technology in conformity with those standards.—
Forbes,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Hysteria over misinformation is leading us to some dark places where calls are made for the kind of censorship and conformity that breed resentment and prevent open inquiry.—
Jacob Hale Russell,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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The first seems to be a nuclear agreement with Iran.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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The announcement comes days before the first phase of the Israel-Hamas hostage-ceasefire agreement is set to expire, and just hours after Hamas handed over the final hostages due for release under the first phase.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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The tool provides visibility to conformance by plant, supplier, and buyer.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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From protocol conformance to infrastructure resilience and secure key management, these risks scale as the value of staked assets grows.—
Amor Sexton,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
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“Acculturation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acculturation. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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