inbuilt

adjective

in·​built ˈin-ˈbilt How to pronounce inbuilt (audio)
chiefly British

Examples of inbuilt in a Sentence

It comes with several inbuilt features. She has an inbuilt resistance to change.
Recent Examples on the Web That means that over the next ten years, grappling with AI’s inbuilt tendency toward uncontrolled spread will become a generational challenge. Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024 To keep it simple, ditch any inbuilt product applicators and use a small, dense eyeshadow brush to pack the pigment directly onto lids instead. Georgia Day, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2023 The prompt and the additional information are fed into the generative AI model, which formulates a response based on its inbuilt knowledge plus the additional information from the RAG search. Rahul Singhal, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023 But the sport itself provides a lot of inbuilt stories and drama without having to cross that line. Andrew McNicol, CNN, 5 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for inbuilt 

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Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of inbuilt was in 1923

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“Inbuilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inbuilt. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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