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Authorities also sent Tibetan children to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, educating them predominantly in Mandarin and inculcating Chinese culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

“This is not about enforcing standards,” she said, “it’s about inculcating a particular value system within the officer corps.”

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

It’s an irresistible ditty that starts by contrasting a text-to-speech voice inculcating on Isaac Newton with Pearce and musician Sharron Kraus singing about the sun’s mass.

From Scientific American • May 27, 2022

How should they mediate the tensions between inculcating values of robust debate, on the one hand, and of disciplined civility on the other?

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2021

Christianity is not the only religion which has consciously employed parable for inculcating the truths it professes to teach.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)