as in to acculturate
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To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025 -
The art world is acculturated to the notion that biennials should highlight new narratives but seems to presume that those artists must also be living and relatively young.—
Pamela J. Joyner,
ARTnews.com,
14 Oct. 2024
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Just like black bears, coyotes can be habituated and lose their natural fear of people through intentional or unintentional feeding.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
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In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
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The Assembly Line Mindset Many developers have been conditioned to work on a digital assembly line driven by velocity.—
Deepa Shekhar,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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And that, and his advanced age, have clearly conditioned possible succession plans.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
17 July 2025
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Others, in a region long accustomed to extreme weather, were kept up by heavy bursts of rain and earsplitting cracks of thunder that shook buildings.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
12 July 2025
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Treasury teams accustomed to batch processing and end-of-day reconciliation must adapt to continuous monitoring and real-time decision-making.—
Dave Glaser,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Trump made clear during Tuesday’s tour that naturalized U.S. citizens — who live in so many communities in Central Florida — may be next to face detention and deportation.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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Of late, in a rare instance of going further than the right-wing Project 2025 itself, Trump has been testing out the notion of kicking U.S. citizens, naturalized and born here, out of the country too.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
7 July 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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