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embedded

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verb

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past tense of embed

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of embedded
Adjective
The letter contained several examples, complete with embedded pictures, explaining how simple text prompts resulted in glossy renderings of Disney characters, including Darth Vader and Iron Man. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2026 There is wide speculation that people will come to embrace new ways to interact with AI, including through new types of wearable or embedded devices. Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
Since starting the project, the couple have relocated from Singapore to Kissamos and is embedded in the community. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 When support is embedded and proactive, outcomes improve dramatically. Ian Gibson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for embedded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embedded
Verb
  • The side of State Highway 121 is rooted with Texas prairie grasses and is known to bloom with Texas wildflowers during spring and summer.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of Torres’s humor is rooted in classification — that’s just where his mind goes, whether for comedy purposes or not.
    Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Even if those issues could be addressed, the tax base would not remain fixed.
    Martha E. Stark, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Moments of humor sit alongside lamentation and ritual intensity, underscoring the exhibition’s refusal of a single, fixed reading.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Late Saturday, rescue crews were trying to determine whether the ValuJet aircraft disintegrated on impact or partially lodged itself in the soft, marshy terrain of the Everglades.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In January 2025, Scott lodged a complaint about the couple with the Rhode Island Department of Health accusing them of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (now formally known as factitious disorder imposed on another) against both Sherry and Laila.
    Juliet Pennington, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Framing developer hesitation as a market failure, as is done in AB 2166, overlooks that such uncertainty is inherent to large-scale development and new technology.
    Eliza Terziev, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Corte talked about the challenges inherent in working with limited available space.
    Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The team said this gap can become the true bottleneck in shrinking future chips, regardless of how strong the material’s intrinsic properties appear in lab tests.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • These calculations help researchers tell apart the nucleus’s intrinsic behavior from outside effects caused by the solid around it.
    Andrei Derevianko, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Not noticeably different than any other basic frozen waffle.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Trees grew on the roof of the Polissya Hotel, which once housed nuclear scientists; at the Palace of Culture Energetik in the city’s center, frozen rain collected inside of a decrepit swimming pool.
    Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Glyphosate 'revolutionized farming' Introduced in the 1970s, Roundup quickly became the top-selling herbicide in the United States and integral to farming.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But fights are just as integral to the Netflix show created by Lee Sung Jin, and the series’ sound team needed to do even more meticulous work building visceral senses of anger, stress, and dread that slowly swallow up the characters and steer them into making a compounding set of poor decisions.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • What Kalshi and Polymarket have done is drag this dirty secret out into the open with the help of transparent and immutable blockchain technology.
    Nic Puckrin, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Bryan himself was always learning something, trying something, Harman said, even if there were immutable truths like dipping the onion rings in the sauce.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026

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“Embedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embedded. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

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