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also engrains
1
as in suffuses
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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2
as in etches
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 roots
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
tried to ingrain traditional values in their children
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Paranoia suffuses the film without showiness or bombast—there are no distorting angles, no dunning musical cues.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2025 -
Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Kirby beautifully etches these notions into Miss Black America.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
28 Aug. 2025
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Natural rock formations rise through the living room floor, a detail that roots the design in the hillside itself, and a full renovation of an existing home brought it in line with the style of the main house while still maintaining its own identity.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
23 Oct. 2025
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Rising seas could swallow the land that roots our identity.—
Feleti Penitala Teo,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
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Because there’s something about the college environment that really inculcates hierarchy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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Malcolm Arnold’s 2,000-square-foot business, Apple Core Electronics, on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick makes exterior intercom panels, sets their wiring, punches buttons and engraves addresses.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The company also engraves the names of the two teams, the final score, the location of the game and its date on the trophy base.—
Paul Edward Parker,
The Providence Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
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The strongest scenes in F1, which boasts a two-and-a-half hour runtime, are these moments during race weekends, when Kosinki embeds his fictional team with real ones.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2025
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The young embeds who moved throughout the government, whom Musk raved about during his Fox News appearances, were an embodiment of this vision.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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A touch of cardamom adds another dash of spice, while bergamot infuses the fragrance with a twist of citrus.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
9 Dec. 2025
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Talarico is studying to be a Presbyterian minister and often infuses his faith into political arguments, which centrists believe can capture independent Texas voters and some Republicans.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Ingrains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrains. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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