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as in inherent
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
her deeply ingrained distrust of all authority
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as in inculcated
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
the journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession
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as in etched
to produce a vivid impression of
the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory
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as in rooted
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
tried to ingrain traditional values in their children
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Recent Examples of ingrained
Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
The deal shows how ingrained the Gardner is within the area—and seems to suggest that the museum views nearby commercial development nearby as a real threat.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Norway’s understanding of kindergarten is deeply ingrained in its culture.
—Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
No other travel experience is as deeply ingrained in our country’s identity quite like the open road.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
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By Audrey Lee Today, filmmakers—and, more broadly, storytellers—use these ingrained historical associations to great effect.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
The deal shows how ingrained the Gardner is within the area—and seems to suggest that the museum views nearby commercial development nearby as a real threat.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Norway’s understanding of kindergarten is deeply ingrained in its culture.
—Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
No other travel experience is as deeply ingrained in our country’s identity quite like the open road.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
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To put it another way: Animation can get away with a lot more because of its inherent otherworldliness.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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An onlooker snapped a picture, which seemed to exemplify the lawlessness that is inherent to why some people love sideshows and others hate them.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Colorado wildlife experts are at odds over whether a ballot measure to ban the hunting of certain wildcats would help or hurt the formidable felines that have long been intrinsic to Rocky Mountain ecosystems.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Kudla said activity and community are intrinsic to the brand’s success.Samantha Conti, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
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The dial's sky-blue portion is imbued with a luminescent coating, ensuring that time remains discernible even in the most challenging lighting conditions.Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Losing a child to suicide confers an unwelcome identity, but like all unwelcome identities, it can be imbued with grace.Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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As per Gizmodo, the owl’s head is embedded with diamonds, and the overall statuette prize is reported to be worth €150,000 ($165,000).Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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There’s an undeniable, intoxicating mystique embedded into every inch of the five-story building, which once primarily served as a cafeteria and community hub frequented by some of the city’s greatest creatives, from sci-fi author Ray Bradbury to Walt Disney.Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Connecticut voters just approved a constitutional amendment that allows for no-excuse absentee voting.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Two potential constitutional amendments are also on the ballot, concerning noncitizen voting and public and private school funding.Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
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After all, what’s best in us is at least as deeply imprinted and encoded as what’s worst in us.Arianna Huffington, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
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Cissy Houston was surrounded by vocal powerhouses who imprinted on her daughter and was said to be Whitney Houston’s biggest inspiration.Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
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Lithium, in other words, has become firmly entrenched in the wellness industry’s extensive library of supplements.Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
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But Austin Vance, CEO and cofounder of software development and consultant agency Focused Labs, countered in an email statement that this legislation actually would have stifled innovation from new players and entrenched the dominance of big companies including Google, Amazon and Meta.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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After his beginnings at Modern Collections, Philbrick delved into corrupt financial machinations, enabled and empowered by the secrecy and instability that are constitutive features of the contemporary-art market.Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
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That could require a new constitutive assembly, with a mission, charter, and political program that speaks to all Palestinians and eschews the stale language of the old PLO, a discourse imbued with the spirit of the mid-twentieth century but with no currency in the twenty-first.Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
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“Ingrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrained. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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