assimilative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of assimilative
From the Medieval Latin word assimilātīvus, dating back to 1520–30. See assimilate, -ive
Example Sentences
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First, and most fundamentally, the court’s opinion overlooks the fact that public education, like democracy itself, is by its nature a messy, assimilative experiment.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025
“It’s not a straight-up assimilative attempt,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
In bringing Lyncoya into his family, Jackson joined other Southern slaveholders, Indian agents, and Northern Quakers in a short-lived, but politically potent, tradition of assimilative adoption.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016
The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
We are probably at once the most assimilative and the most sensitive nation in Europe.
From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Charles Gavan Duffy
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