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indoctrinate
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indoctrinate someone into something
to teach someone the ways of a group or some activity. The staff sought to indoctrinate Walter into the ways of office procedure. Todd indoctrinated Ken into camp life.

indoctrinate someone with something

to teach someone the official or fundamental knowledge about something. They indoctrinated all their spies with the importance of being loyal to the death. Ken indoctrinated Todd with revolutionary thinking.


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Marc Headley, who has an experience of 15 years in the Church of Scientology, has claimed in his book 'Blown for Good,' that he joined the 'Top Gun' star in his Upper Indoctrination Training Routines, 19 years ago.
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the schoolteacher in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away, the slavemaster/schoolteacher in Toni Morrison's Beloved, teaching as misogynist indoctrination and "soul murder" in Joyce Carol Oate's Beasts, and the danger of posture in David Mamet's Oleanna.
 
 
 
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