Synonyms for indoctrination
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Princeton's WordNet

1. indoctrinationnoun

   teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

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1. indoctrinationnoun

   Synonyms:
   instruction, initiation

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1. List of paraphrases for "indoctrination":

   preaching, familiarization, instruction, familiarisation

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1. indoctrination

   Synonyms:
   See Brainwashing
   

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1. John McAdams:

   There’s a lot of keeping your mouth shut, students are subjected to a good bit of indoctrination.

2. Kelly Preston:

   The church has a very intense indoctrination to prepare you for anything you might hear, it’s like a pre-emptive strike in case something uncomfortable comes up. Kelly’s been trained to not believe what she hears in the media. She’s been trained to think that these are evil people making things up.

3. Jonathan Kozol:

   The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.

4. Zeki Saritoprak:

   Worldwide, to my knowledge, there has been no credible evidence of religious indoctrination at any school established or run by Hizmet sympathizers.

5. James Scott:

   In the United States there is a unique blend of patriotism indoctrination from the pulpit which blends establishment controls into the religious ideology. This way, to question the establishment is to question God, therefore one’s patriotism and salvation is contingent on their submission to the state.