The Old Greenlandic diphthong /au/ has assimilated to /aa/.
He adds that via his own Newsday columns "a kind of mentoring has been going on over the years, as he has assimilated my ideas with his own and put them into practice".
If you say something that intrigues or amuses him, he grins slightly, signifying -- as with the flick of a frog's tongue -- that he has assimilated it.
Unfortunately, she has assimilated those critics' methods as well.
According to the standards of the Qianlong Emperor and successive regimes, the epithet "cooked" was synonymous with having assimilated to Han cultural norms, and living as a subject of the Empire, but it retained a pejorative designation to signify the perceived cultural lacking of the non-Han people.
It's interesting that Soko sees herself in terms of being a monster or an alien, because she appears to have assimilated into the LA scene with almost supernatural ease.
The word civilized was applied to the five tribes because, broadly speaking, they had developed extensive economic ties with whites or had assimilated into American settler culture.
They are the best and brightest of black America, who have assimilated into the upper middle class while grappling with the black community they have left behind.
Having reached self-consciousness into that language, having assimilated it along with the mother's milk, so to speak, such a writer finds himself in a somewhat privileged position: he only has to bring to perfection whatever he has received.
("Cats," says Cornelius Appin, the guest in question, "those wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts").
It consists basically of much of the military leadership, the large industrial firms that make weapons, and the members of Congress who have assimilated their public careers with the cause of armed strength.
