Verb (used without object) : The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly.    From Dictionary.com. 

Your writing seems to overlook the fact that mixing or what you call assimilating really does take two to tango.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiering On] Reference

Shao, a Chinese-American, said companies sometimes overlook cultural differences in assimilating workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Actions speak louder than words in diverse hiring] Reference

It's called assimilating to the culture where you live … do that and you will win the respect of those around you.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Political Ticker] Reference

Tower and even tried to learn the violin — all this was the idea of assimilating European civilization as throughly as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays] Reference

Thankfully my kids have been "assimilating" excitedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [April Rudin: A Midwestern Jewish Girl's Guide To An NYC Christmas Season] Reference

To this end, they travel the galaxy, increasing their numbers and advancing by "assimilating" other species and their technologies, and subjugating captured individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sui Generis--a New York law blog:] Reference

It is in fact surprising how often a familiar place of Scripture has exerted this kind of assimilating influence over a little handful of copies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference

"assimilating," I mean that we must metabolize truth so that it is "interiorized" and becomes mingled with our very psychic substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Cosmos] Reference

To this end, they travel the galaxy, increasing their numbers and advancing by "assimilating" other species and their technologies, and subjugating captured individuals ... (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Rights] Reference

Are we assimilating His mind, His way of looking at things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

To keep the mind in an assimilating condition, what method is furnished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

Colbert also got down to business re-assimilating the vets to today's world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colbert Continues Salute To Iraq War Veterans With Hot Dogs, Free Beer (VIDEO)] Reference

Burgundian influence, assimilating its vigorous race type and ruled by its laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

Or, as conventional as ever, our own method is the scientific method of assimilating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Everything checks out normal except that Belle seems not to be assimilating her food.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Fur and Bones] Reference

He felt it assimilating men who lived, moved and had their being in C.P.R. -- as he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

This would seem to be owing to the greater capacity the pig has for assimilating its food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Japan was said to be hungrily assimilating world culture, yet still stubbornly traditional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Un-Japanese] Reference

She grew up assimilating European and African cultures, and her 10-year career reflects that.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Malian Chanteuse With Modern Grace] Reference

 Turns out Beagles are not one of the breeds that have a hard time assimilating into families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pork Chops and Apple Sauce] Reference

There are, however, elements in St.icism which St. Paul would never have dreamt of assimilating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Several explanations of the different capacities crops possess of assimilating their food may be put forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The second and third generations, broadly prosperous and gradually assimilating, are hyphenated Americans now.    From Wordnik.com.  ['How Can We Say No?'] Reference

Britain today does a decent job of assimilating its immigrants, certainly better than any other European country.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW TO STOP THE CONTAGION] Reference

Most of the evidence suggests that the latest immigrants are assimilating at least as quickly as their predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Nye: The Closing of America?] Reference

As a result, the cortex falls behind in development and has trouble assimilating complex information such as language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Child's Brain] Reference

All are now on the same platform, and, for a time, class distinctions disappear beneath the assimilating conditions of the new profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Millions of Hispanics are assimilating, but they are also putting their own distinctive stamp on what assimilation will signify for future generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO AMERICAS?] Reference

For Germans, meanwhile, the slow process of assimilating their ghastly history goes on, even as the nation starts to shed some of the stigma of its past.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Shadow Of Their Past] Reference

The Arab cared only to convert a conquered people to Mohammedanism and to push his individual fortune, heedless of assimilating individuals into one nation, as did the Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference