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Finally, with the rise of the Persian Empire and its conquest of Babylonia, the Persian king Cyrus the Great permitted the unassimilated Judeans to return to Judah.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The writing itself was just as singular — unassimilated and unafraid even by today’s standards.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022

Still, even in a contemporary discourse that often seems allergic to complexity, audiences retain the ability to accommodate unassimilated contradiction.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

“His book also implicitly advocates for new scholarship on Soutine, who remains a fairly unassimilated figure and has yet to be the subject of a full-on biography in English.”

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2016

Such a document implies that a person can exercise that most public of rights—the right to vote— while still keeping apart, unassimilated from public life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez