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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
Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2025
That moment revealed how deeply ingrained texture bias is and strengthened her commitment to ensure women know that all hair types are beautiful.
—Essence, 30 Nov. 2025
Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
Creative risk was ingrained in Walt’s DNA.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
But reaching any such deal would entail overcoming the deeply ingrained opposition of most Republicans — including GOP leaders — to extending subsidies that many conservatives say are fueling the rise in premiums.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2025
That moment revealed how deeply ingrained texture bias is and strengthened her commitment to ensure women know that all hair types are beautiful.
—Essence, 30 Nov. 2025
Verb
Everything at Indiana continues to show up again and again like a metronome of consistency, their mantra so ingrained even the university president sings the same tune.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
Creative risk was ingrained in Walt’s DNA.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingrained
Adjective
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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
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Seen through this lens, every person possesses inherent dignity and value.—
James O. Cunningham,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Reid seemed to truly believe, despite the partisanship that suffused the column, that the Senate had been badly damaged.—
Jon Ralston,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
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At the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, ice artists create walk-through castles with tunnels, slides and frozen fountains etched into natural-looking formations.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Apple Card was different from a traditional credit card — with no number on the front and the users’ name etched in metal.—
Michelle Chapman,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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There is a kind of intrinsic magnet present in this journey, which become ours.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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Published in the journal Science, the study points out that the efficient heat dissipation is fundamentally limited by intrinsic scattering mechanisms that cap the thermal conductivity of metallic materials such as copper to ~ 400 Watts per meter Kelvin.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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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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European-style art is engraved into the balcony walls, evoking the grand aura of classical theaters from past centuries.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Just their names — Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll and Joe — remain engraved into a cement wall.—
Tassanee Vejpongsa,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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With an undeletable presence embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million enterprise devices, Absolute delivers persistent visibility, control, and auto-repair capabilities that operate even when systems fail.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The chatbot — code-named Campos — will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems and replace the current Siri interface, according to people familiar with the plan.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Ingrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingrained. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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