assimilator
Americannoun
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assimilators
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a person or thing that takes in or absorbs.
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a person or thing that has the effect of assimilating people to a dominant set of attitudes, customs, etc.
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a person who assimilates or adapts to a dominant set of attitudes, customs, etc., especially one who does so readily or easily.
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“I think of America, the great assimilator, as a rubber band, but with this — we’re at the breaking point,” she said in the interview.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
This impromptu adventure did not thrill my parents, but, I figured, what better way to explore the spirit of one of the Western world’s most condensed cities than through sports, the great assimilator?
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012
An eager assimilator, she spoke impeccable English with no vestiges of accent.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011
Musically he was an adroit assimilator of styles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who really know what originality is are not long the slave of the power of imitation: it is the gifted assimilator that suffers most under the spell of mastery.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
There are echoes of the Band here, and of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Byrds, but the Del-Lords are assimilators, not imitators, and they have been listening to some of the best.
From Time Magazine Archive
Truly pitiful has become the position of these assimilators, who but yesterday were the champions of national self-effacement.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
The Japanese have thus shown themselves ready assimilators of all these diverse systems of religious expression.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
You say," Smolenskin exclaims, addressing himself to the assimilators, "let us be like the other nations.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
America has a great body of assimilators, and out of this gift for uncreative assimilation has come the type of art we are supposed to accept as our own.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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