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also intrench
as in to root
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
a father who entrenched in our minds the belief that hard work pays off
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Recent Examples of entrench
Networks of scams and fraud were entrenching themselves in every aspect of life in today’s India and beyond.
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
His tenure helped further entrench the NOI in the Northern part of Philly.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Members of Congress are entrenched in disagreements over health care policy with little bipartisanship on the horizon.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Mind you, the entire infantry kit in those days didn't go far beyond a rifle, bayonet, canteen, mess tins, and an entrenching tool balanced with the odd hand grenade.
—New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
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Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
His tenure helped further entrench the NOI in the Northern part of Philly.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Members of Congress are entrenched in disagreements over health care policy with little bipartisanship on the horizon.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Mind you, the entire infantry kit in those days didn't go far beyond a rifle, bayonet, canteen, mess tins, and an entrenching tool balanced with the odd hand grenade.
—New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrench
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If desired, dip the cut end of the stem into rooting hormone, but this is totally optional.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
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Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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In a similar vein, Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist writing during her time working at Google, warned of the dangers of large language models acting as stochastic parrots, which repeat language patterns without understanding, and in doing so replicate the biases embedded in their training data.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Washington accuses the Venezuelan regime of leading the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns), a drug-trafficking network allegedly embedded within the country’s military.—
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) lodged an immigration detainer against Khathavong at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia a month after his conviction.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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But Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have also lodged an appeal to the France’s Council of State over windowing rules which force them to wait 15 to 17 months to access films after their theatrical release.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Entrench.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrench. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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