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embedded

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verb

variants also imbedded
past tense of embed

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of embedded
Adjective
The device receives a video feed captured by external smart glasses with an embedded camera. Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Driving all of this transformation is AI — not as a buzzword, Abadie noted, but as an embedded, working reality. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
Testing on heart tissue and rats The team embedded rows of these microparticles into a hydrogel patch made from alginate and PEGDA. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025 Bondi said Maduro heads the Cartel de los Soles, a drug-trafficking organization embedded in Venezuela’s military, and works with groups including Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, and other transnational criminal networks. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for embedded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embedded
Verb
  • Karthik’s cinema is rooted, inventive and wildly original, yet universal in emotion.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Once the cuttings have rooted, pot the plants and place them in a cool, sunny spot, watering only when the soil is dry.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
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
  • During the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dean Darrow was struck by gunfire, and a bullet was lodged in his heart.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Recently, New York City added a suit to the dozens that have already been lodged by local governments against social-media companies such as Meta, which owns Instagram, and Bytedance, the owner of TikTok.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The intention of the multi-track is to remove the inherent misalignment of a product and its value chain from the traditional product creation calendar.
    Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But Sauer argued that the doctrine doesn’t hold with regard to foreign affairs, where the President has some inherent constitutional authority.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • And garnering this smallish corner of the market is intrinsic to the brand’s identity.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2025
  • By comparing a Cepheid’s intrinsic luminosity with how bright the star appears in our sky, its distance can then be calculated.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • For context, a simple baguette, which can be made with additives and baked from frozen, is around a euro.
    Vivian Song, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Target’s four-person meal costs less than $20, about the same as in 2024, but substitutes green beans and cream of mushroom soup for French bread and frozen corn — also not an apples-to-apples comparison.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Johnson, a 13-year NFL pro, is an integral cog in the Philadelphia offense.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • When disaster strikes, public school buildings are integral as safe havens in hundreds of predominantly Indigenous villages scattered across Alaska's vast landscape.
    Emily Schwing, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Leadership style can vary, but at its core, the basics of that model are immutable.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The collaboration will leverage VeChain’s ToolChain platform to attach unique QR codes or near-field communication (NFC) tags—each linked to an immutable digital record—to every jacket, hoodie and pair of leggings produced.
    Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Embedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embedded. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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