assimilative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of assimilative
From the Medieval Latin word assimilātīvus, dating back to 1520–30. See assimilate, -ive
Example Sentences
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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025
Some community members who attended the school in the 1980s — after it abandoned assimilative measures and embraced Lakota language and culture — have fond memories of the experience.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016
The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
In this destruction, the weaker animals and plants—those least fitted to thrive under the influences around—become the prey of others better fitted for the struggle, or die of their own lack of assimilative force.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
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