as in inherent
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
a poker player with a seemingly built-in ability to read his opponents' faces
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Recent Examples of built-in
The Anker Nano has built-in safety protections, including overheat prevention, short-circuit protection, and automatic shutoff in the event of overload.
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
The space opens to both the formal dining room and the family room which is accented by a Connecticut fieldstone fireplace, built-in bench seating and turn-of-the-century stained glass from England.
—Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
The Anker Nebula Capsule 3 projector is now 28% off and brings big-screen movie nights anywhere with its soda-can size, built-in Google TV, and shockingly solid sound.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
However, a lot of new laptops don’t have built-in Ethernet jacks, though many of the most affordable USB-C hubs do.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
The space opens to both the formal dining room and the family room which is accented by a Connecticut fieldstone fireplace, built-in bench seating and turn-of-the-century stained glass from England.
—Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
The Anker Nebula Capsule 3 projector is now 28% off and brings big-screen movie nights anywhere with its soda-can size, built-in Google TV, and shockingly solid sound.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
However, a lot of new laptops don’t have built-in Ethernet jacks, though many of the most affordable USB-C hubs do.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for built-in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for built-in
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Performance Trade-Offs: Real-time applications face inherent constraints due to the computational overhead of symbolic reasoning, knowledge graph traversal and the general reduction in inference speeds compared to pure neural approaches.—
Anuradha Weeraman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The fibers’ inherent comfort also resonates with lifestyle brands like Ugg.—
SJ Studio,
Sourcing Journal,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Our intrinsic value of $60.00 is based on a 2026e EV/EBITDA multiple of 10.0x for the Building Materials segment (~6.8% premium to peer multiple of 9.4x) and 13.0x for the Building Envelope segment (~2.2% premium to peer multiple of 12.7x).—
Joe Cornell,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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This improvement is not the result of external adjustments but rather an intrinsic development within the model.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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The report cites that as of Feb. 13, the district had 47.5 special education teacher vacancies among other vacancies including school psychologists, school social workers and speech language pathologists, all of whom are integral to special education services for students.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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The reports come as the success of Tesla's robotaxi division may be increasingly integral to the future of the company.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 July 2025
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Naturally produced by your body, collagen is an essential protein that helps build and maintain skin, bones, and connective tissues.—
Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
1 July 2025
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The House bill text also included a provision prohibiting Obamacare marketplace insurance plans from including gender transition procedures as an essential health benefit.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
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“Built-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/built-in. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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