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cultural change

American  
[kuhl-cher-uhl chaynj] / ˈkʌl tʃər əl ˈtʃeɪndʒ /

noun

  • cultural changes
    plural
  1. Also, culture change, alteration in a society's culture, resulting either from internal development or from interchange with members of other societies.


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Zev Yaroslavsky, a former L.A. politician who served then as a City Council member representing district 5, said the new ethics role represented a “dramatic, profound cultural change in municipal government.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

He says commonhold will require "a bit of a cultural change" and that people will need to view themselves as "stewards" of their building.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

And a cultural change was hitting the business hard: In a digital economy dominated by smartphones and tap-to-pay credit cards, revenue steadily declined as the machines became harder to use in everyday life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

It was a major cultural change for someone who had come up on the British populist right, as the restaurant attracted patrons interested in blockchain and not just in Brexit.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

Indeed, the coming age of cultural change - including new trends in music - was ushered in by a widely held belief that the world was on the brink of catastrophe.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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