assimilate
verb (used with object)
to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.
unassimilated
-
a word derived from
assimilate.
Example Sentences
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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
