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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
His defeat of 82-year-old Harrison Ford crystallized the Academy’s wholesale rejection of celebrity currency in favor of embedded, touching work. Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025 The device receives a video feed captured by external smart glasses with an embedded camera. Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
The optimism is also embedded in earnings expectations. Yun Li, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026 As autonomous systems become more deeply embedded in operations, emergent behavior will create a new class of cyber risk. Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for embedded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embedded
Verb
  • Iran is a theocratic republic rooted ideologically in Shiite Islam while Venezuela is a socialist and secular regime.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 7 Jan. 2026
  • These institutions are rooted here because Illinois and Chicago are integral to their brand, talent pipeline and mission.
    Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • And if no bus runs to your destination, there might be a dolmuş, a yellow van that runs on a fixed route, but stops whenever a passenger requests it and leaves whenever the van is full.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
  • There’s no fixed size for small business security, but a common range is 20 to 25 devices.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Toward the end of last month, more than a dozen separate proposals from Chinese satellite operators were lodged with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the global body responsible for coordinating radio spectrum and orbital slots.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
  • His friends also told him that Farabi Eye Hospital in Tehran experienced a particular surge in patients with pellets lodged in their eyes, with roughly 200 to 300 patients.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The risks inherent in the LBO structure are exacerbated by the amount of debt PSKY must incur, its current financial position and future prospects, as well as the lengthy period to close the transaction – which PSKY itself estimates to be 12-18 months following signing.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Seen through this lens, every person possesses inherent dignity and value.
    James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The company’s proprietary Safe+ solid-state platform, combined with its in-situ sub-micron industrial film deposition (ISFD) technology, is designed to boost energy density while improving intrinsic safety by replacing traditional liquid electrolytes.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Someone with the virginal purity of a political outsider and the intrinsic capability of an insider who’s spent decades cutting deals and keeping the government wheels spinning.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Sylist Renato Campora used the continuous Marcel wave technique, tucking under her ends and creating a glossy, frozen finish.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Work from the direction of the faucet toward the frozen area.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Win on third down Extending drives on offense and cutting them short on defense will be integral.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Greenland holds strategic importance Greenland had been a colony of the Danish kingdom for hundreds of years, becoming an integral part in 1953.
    Stefanie Dazio, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Those problems aren’t immutable.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, that half of art of which the other is the eternal and immutable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025

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“Embedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embedded. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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