assimilationist
noun
an advocate for assimilationism.
assimilationists
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pluralof assimilationist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Its sister document, El Plan de Santa Barbara, warned activists that they “must be able to relate to all segments of the Barrio, from the middle-class assimilationists to the vatos locos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
The assimilationists feel constricted by their minority identity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
Its internal debates between assimilationists and revolutionaries anticipated rifts within the black power and decolonization movements that roiled the late-1960s; James Earl Jones starred in the 1970 premiere.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
Ranging across the centuries, “Stamped” identified segregationists, assimilationists, and antiracists with a confident clarity that was also the book’s greatest weakness, because it reduced complicated lives to a series of pass-fail tests.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Fresh Off the Boat began by embracing both the assimilationists and the holdouts among the Asian diaspora—there wasn’t a wrong way to be an immigrant.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2018
