assimilate
verb (used with object)
to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.
had assimilated
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past perfectof assimilate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Obviously, we in the Old World had assimilated the New World far more unthinkingly than was true in reverse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
The few Latinos in the industry I met had assimilated into this worldview as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
By the time of Macron’s childhood of music lessons and tennis matches, the family had assimilated into the bourgeoisie.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
But he wasn’t deaf to the musical street culture, especially the black marching bands that had assimilated the rhythms of black ragtime.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2017
Germany was a nation which has been swallowed up and incorporated by an army and an administration; the Prussian military system had assimilated to itself the whole German life.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
