ingrained 1 of 2

variants also engrained

ingrained

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verb

variants also engrained
past tense of ingrain

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Recent Examples of ingrained
Adjective
And moving the system information—which is something Mac users are familiar with—seems an unnecessary disruption to ingrained Windows users’ habits. Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025 The design stands out courtesy of ingrained alignment markers, which guide your hands and feet when setting up poses. Izzy Baskette, People.com, 12 June 2025 The Long Wharf includes community engagement among its core values and speaks of theater needing to be as accessible and ingrained in city life as parks or libraries. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2025 What may begin as a conscious effort becomes ingrained behavior over time. True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ingrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingrained
Adjective
  • Performance Trade-Offs: Real-time applications face inherent constraints due to the computational overhead of symbolic reasoning, knowledge graph traversal and the general reduction in inference speeds compared to pure neural approaches.
    Anuradha Weeraman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The fibers’ inherent comfort also resonates with lifestyle brands like Ugg.
    SJ Studio, Sourcing Journal, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a 2021 study published in Psychological Reports, researchers explored how intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to act based on interest, personal importance or inner values, affects satisfaction in long-term romantic relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Underlying all of this is the intrinsic tendency to resist cooperation.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • As men turned to practical, less frivolous garments, their shoe heels also remained sensible — though not for women, whose heel heights were imbued with complex social and political implications with every added or subtracted half-inch.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
  • As many transgender people know, even the most mundane objects — a necktie, a name badge, a dress — can be imbued with intense personal meaning.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • To thank Murph, Wetzel bought her a pistol engraved with their names and the song’s title that took three months to make.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The case—built from wood species living in The Glen Grant Distillery’s Garden of Splendours—is engraved with Himalayan Blue Poppies, which have grown in the garden for almost 140 years.
    David Thomas Tao, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some of them, though, are embedded in that seabed.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
  • This certificate, embedded as metadata in the document, would create an unalterable record of its authenticity and source.
    Quora, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In other words, the German state can actively defend itself against internal threats to its democratic principles and constitutional order, including through the banning of political parties.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 July 2025
  • Behind the reading of old documents, the memorizing of poetry, and the charting of constitutional processes, is the purpose and goal of appreciating and applying this love of America to our lives from an early age.
    Linda McMahon, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Verb
  • The footprints were likely imprinted onto the boulder as the dinosaurs passed across a patch of wet, white clay, possibly walking along or crossing a waterway during the Early Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago, Romilio said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • His shirts all had my lip gloss imprinted on the chest because I wasn't used to hugging someone so tall yet.
    Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In addition, there is a growing concern around AI and its potential impact, thus increasing the likelihood of ambiguity becoming deeply entrenched in the workforce.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • With a Labour government entrenched until at least 2029, that’s unlikely to happen anytime, but the big brands are also big planners, and always thinking about the success of the next generation.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Ingrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrained. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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