assimilator
Americannoun
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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
It provided a language through which to reject the role of the eager assimilator that his own culture seemed to urge onto him.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
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
"Marriage is the main assimilator," says Karen Stephenson, an anthropologist at UCLA.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great creative mind Van Dyck certainly had not, but, gifted assimilator that he was, he developed many delightful qualities of his art.
From Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
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