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1
as in inculcates
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 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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingrains
Verb
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Kirby beautifully etches these notions into Miss Black America.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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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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In a strong culture, everyone roots their daily decisions in a desire to be in it to win it; there's a sense of ownership, pride and belonging.—
Alex Brueckmann,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Pierpaolo Piccioli also infuses his vision of Balenciaga with a more literally glamorous take on femininity, which he has been known for at Valentino, of course.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
5 Oct. 2025
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Add Architectural Detail Reserve Home content creator Mallory Fletcher is well-known for the French flea market-style decor that infuses her Brooklyn apartment—and for her DIY chops.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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Nothing engraves glass as uniformly and perfectly as UV lasers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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But the reality is that car dependence entrenches debt, ill health, and vulnerability—forms of unfreedom smuggled in under the name of freedom.—
Henrietta Moore,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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This fragmentation further entrenches geopolitical tensions and makes LNG and energy pipelines strategic assets on top of commercial projects.—
Earl Carr,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the committee said young children should receive one vaccine for chickenpox and a different shot known as MMR that inoculates against measles, mumps and rubella.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Develop Character To Combat Cognitive Warfare Developing and strengthening character inoculates individuals.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Unless Nikishin really impresses in that regard or Miller finds a previously unseen level, the Hurricanes don’t have that.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In the first of two classes with fake guns that don’t fire real bullets, Tamra impresses Jenn and Emily with her target-shooting skills.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh embeds wisdom and meditations on age, love, peace, solitude and fulfillment within the relaxing, picturesque setting of the sea.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Splunk’s new approach embeds agentic AI directly into Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics, which continuously analyzes telemetry, flags anomalies, diagnoses root causes and recommends fixes.—
Victor Dey,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Ingrains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrains. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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