enshrined; enshrining; enshrines
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some teachers tend to enshrine their personal preferences as sacred rules of English grammar
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The Biden administration was poised to enshrine a few powerful companies as the arbiters of AI, handing them and the government power to determine what is and isn’t ethical.
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Nathan Schneider, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
The passage of the 1965 preservation law enshrined memory as a public good, but the midtown and lower Manhattan skylines were being hurriedly redrawn at the same time.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
Club sources previously consulted by The Athletic pointed to the presumption of innocence — a key principle of criminal law in Spain enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — when asked about Asencio’s situation.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Fast-forward to the late 19th century, and the first set of H. erectus fossils was found by Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois on Java, enshrined in archaeological history as the Java Man.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
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Nathan Schneider, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
The passage of the 1965 preservation law enshrined memory as a public good, but the midtown and lower Manhattan skylines were being hurriedly redrawn at the same time.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
Club sources previously consulted by The Athletic pointed to the presumption of innocence — a key principle of criminal law in Spain enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — when asked about Asencio’s situation.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Fast-forward to the late 19th century, and the first set of H. erectus fossils was found by Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois on Java, enshrined in archaeological history as the Java Man.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
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enshrine
verb
en·shrine
in-ˈshrīn 
enshrined; enshrining
1
: to enclose in or as if in a shrine
2
: to preserve or cherish as sacred
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