indoctrinating
- present participle of indoctrinate.
Example Sentences
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Like avian Fagins, the birds were indoctrinating others to a life of crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Ultimately, “everyone is capable of indoctrinating themselves at any time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
In the suits, Wershe accused officers from the FBI and Detroit Police Department of indoctrinating him into a “criminal society” as a child.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The training or normal establishment is instituted for the express purpose of indoctrinating the masters in the views prescribed by the Board.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865 by Clergymen, Society of