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
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
He regarded himself as an assimilator of everything that went into him, be it food, sight, sound, or scent, and his perfection as such in exact ratio to the product he derived from them.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
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