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as in inherent
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
her deeply ingrained distrust of all authority
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also engrained
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as in suffused
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 etched
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 rooted
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 ingrained
Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 17 Feb. 2026
The practice is so ingrained in NBA culture that even suggestions to fight it seem hard to come by.
—David K. Li, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
It’s ingrained in the DNA of this UConn team at every level.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
But why has wrestling become so ingrained in the state's culture?
—Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 17 Feb. 2026
The practice is so ingrained in NBA culture that even suggestions to fight it seem hard to come by.
—David K. Li, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
Change is possible, no matter how ingrained our bad habits are.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
It’s ingrained in the DNA of this UConn team at every level.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingrained
Adjective
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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
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Corte talked about the challenges inherent in working with limited available space.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The galleries were suffused with the tang of iron and old cum.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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It’s known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, and is made up of the light that was released when the hot, dense plasma that suffused the early universe cooled enough to form hydrogen atoms.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
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Mendoza’s name might already be etched into the card NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will use to announce the Raiders’ top selection.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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This week will remain etched on my heart.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Having a say over who comes and goes into a country is an intrinsic part of what defines a country.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Patriotism is a value that an IP-dependent tech company fighting Chinese rivals might well be happy to see inculcated in its employees.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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That’s true for Tamma in a different way – it’s inculcated in Tamma that no one will help her but that’s not true.—
Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
20 Jan. 2026
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The white-gold indices, also hand-engraved, and star trails, evoking the night sky, are joined by 18-karat-pink-gold hands, a visible flying-tourbillon cage, a dual-register split-seconds flyback chronograph, and a semi-Gregorian perpetual calendar.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2026
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The statues are engraved, and the Vanity Fair Oscar Party took over its new home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, complete with an A-plus-plus guest list, stunning costume changes for the red carpet, and, of course, In-N-Out burgers for all, served all night long.—
Vanity Fair,
Vanity Fair,
16 Mar. 2026
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Almost every new vehicle has at least one modem embedded somewhere, connected to some cloud or other.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2026
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Her drawl, verbosity, and avant-garde black-and-white outfits were immediately embedded in popular culture; O’Hara won an Emmy for the role.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Ingrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrained. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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