"assimilate" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it when you want to describe a process of integrating someone into a society or culture, or when you want to describe something that has been completely absorbed or adopted by a person. For example: After moving to her new home in the United States, Jane quickly assimilated into the culture and began to feel like a local.
Because of that always-changing environment and set of circumstances, youre constantly trying to assimilate yourself.
"The options were either to assimilate, and remove the sense that you were a 'threat' to your 'hosts'," he explained, "or to entrench yourself among your own people.
"It was just something that existed and was never questioned because we wanted to assimilate as quickly as possible, so we consumed as much American culture as possible".
"And it's very easy to assimilate into the communities here".
But as human operators struggle to assimilate the information collected by robotic sensors, decision-making by robots seems likely to increase.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] – The main obstacle to Israel's long-term economic success is not the failure to assimilate both Arab-Israeli and ultra-orthodox Jews into its business culture, although that is a big challenge (Schumpeter, January 1st).
Ultimately, the book is a cultural study of America, and the country's ability to assimilate just about anything.
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Maria Pia Montoro
Terminologist and Q/A Analyst @ Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union