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
“It’s not a straight-up assimilative attempt,” she says.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022
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
A new exhibition there, for example, “California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area From the Gold Rush to the Present,” is an affirmation of religious experimentation and assimilative possibility.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2012
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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