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/ɪndˈɒktɹɪnˌeɪt/
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[ US /ɪnˈdɑktɹəˌneɪt/ ]
[ US /ɪnˈdɑktɹəˌneɪt/ ]
VERB
-
teach doctrines to; teach uncritically
The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples
How To Use indoctrinate In A Sentence
- David Koch recalled that his father also indoctrinated the boys politically.
- The progs are a bunch of addle brained stoners so indoctrinated by the Lefties that they have lost all ability to reason, so addle brained that they fell for the Obama fraud. Center for American Progress Action Fund
- Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children Traficant released from prison
- People in audiences today have been so indoctrinated with the idea that they must fulfil themselves and act on their desires, that they now behave as if their wants are all that matter.
- ‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.
- Some parents were critical of attempts to indoctrinate children in green ideology.
- Although many are ready to leap to the conclusion that Awlaki helped to "brainwash" and "indoctrinate" these jihadi wannabes, it is much more likely that they sought out the popular Internet preacher because they already self-radicalized to the point of wanting reassurance and further guidance. Scott Atran: Understanding How the Privileged Become Violent Fanatics
- One reasons progressives oppose school choice is that the majority of school teachers are tilting toward a secular-statist point of view, and progressives treasure the opportunity to indoctrinate young minds (the code words for this in the debate are things like protecting the "shared experience" which sounds like indoctrination to me). Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Respecting Individual Decision-Making
- Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes.
- ‘Be cool, stay in school’ is indoctrinated into students from preschool to postgrad, but the entrepreneurial impulse is not always suited to college.